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mircea_popescu: also has the bonus advantage that there's exactly no risk of "clever" processor intructions being used.
mircea_popescu: maybe. the matter has to be properly analyzed for all other schemes
mircea_popescu: node m connects to A, sends garbage. if A manages to decrypt it, M will see it.
mircea_popescu: suppose you build a node. your node "doesn't answer", but it DOES publish the relayed txn somewhere.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field your gossipd node is stuck doing a version of this.
mircea_popescu: a few years after its introduction to "forever fix" the nonsensical problem of "turning a stateless protocol into a stateful connection"
mircea_popescu: eventually managing to obtain the key through the interplay of your selection and weakness of the cryptosystem)
mircea_popescu: (acca/cca2 = adaptive chosen cyphertext. it's an attack where you sort the cyphertexts in a tree, then send them to be decrypted
mircea_popescu: it however was not only the first but to date the only afaik scheme that's secure against acca. provedly so.
mircea_popescu: let us indulge then. cramer-shoup is an asym key system, just like rsa or ecc.
mircea_popescu: "Although the potential development of quantum computers threatens the security of many common forms of cryptography such as RSA, "
mircea_popescu: (leaving to reader's discretion which of the two this exemplifies)
mircea_popescu: but so far we don't even know if we actually want rsa (this for lack of gossipd) nor have we studied shoup etc.
mircea_popescu: imagine, having to either a) ignore the matter or b) make a point that the evil people are not-using its beloved shitscheme!
mircea_popescu: this will actually almost certainly be in there. gotta hurt the enemy not just in the matter at hand but across the field.
mircea_popescu: for some reason i read that as ram parity check something-or-the-other.
mircea_popescu: then threw a fit when random barbarian landed and took your wonders ?
mircea_popescu: were you the derpy sort of player that never built a phalanx ?
mircea_popescu: even "pogo-ready btc" might be good enough. definitely WOULD have been good enough, in 2015.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, a btc with ringbuffer mempool, with the aforediscussed scoring mechanism for discounting txn, with encrypted connections and using any port is probablty good enough. hard to tell.
mircea_popescu: well i don't even know yet. vaguely defined, "a btc that won't give my computer hives"
mircea_popescu: socialists, of which the usg is just an implementation, lose through there existing alternative. all that's needed really.
mircea_popescu: notrly, even to whale. gotta appreciate : if the niche exists, the plankton also exists.
mircea_popescu: so far all the efforts went more in the line of the earlierly discussed tor : nobody uses it but we keep pretending yet the propaganda machine's in place,
mircea_popescu: anyway, my data seems to suggest that the enemy will be pushing a fork before the decade's out. whether we at that time have a counterfork ready or not is pretty much what decides the fate of the free world.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: of course, back illo tempore any class on crypto necessarily begun with a "data structures" prior years earlier.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "whenever you do a murder, you make 25 mistakes ; if you remember five of them afterwards you're lucky."
mircea_popescu: seems easier to believe a lone wolf is dumb than clever.
mircea_popescu: of course, there's a 2nd layer of problems : had the code been neatly written by someone obviously clueful as to the fundamentals of computer programming, would we have believed.
mircea_popescu: someone would have benefited immensely from a decent class in data structures.
mircea_popescu: notably, this would do nothing to break the protocol. how nodes handle their mempool is really their own problem.
mircea_popescu: i've been mulling it for months now, but there's no way out.
mircea_popescu: i see why they wanted to pretend, but it is fundamentally contrary to design goals.
mircea_popescu: "no transaction may be included in mempool if it has ANY predecessors that have not been already mined"
mircea_popescu: and i am almost persuaded by now that the notion of chained tx must be done away with.
mircea_popescu: what's it been, ONLY two full years ? still carrying on with it ?
mircea_popescu: "That contrary to planted disinformation of which the Guardian article is a fine example, the NSA has complete and unlimited, instantaneous access to any and all information passed through the TOR network in its entirety, as a matter of course and by design."
mircea_popescu: funny how "everyone" pretends tor is actually somehow a thing.
mircea_popescu: he's been an outlier throughout. not more or less insane than the average for that place.
mircea_popescu: and unrelatedly, omfg busta rhymes is the best black people act since aretha franklin.
mircea_popescu: jurov does this mechanism do anything about fragmentation ? notrly huh