asciilifeform: Adlai: this invokes notions of 'random'

asciilifeform: i do wish that mircea_popescu were right about this, it would make for an interesting mathemagical mindfuck

asciilifeform: Adlai: you still need non-guessable privkeys

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how the fuck can one say 'it functions' if i can divine all of your keys

asciilifeform: as in, anyone can take anything.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you can't nondeterministically create the addrs, OR the nonces, you're fucked

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: function ?!

asciilifeform: https://i2.wp.com/imgs.xkcd.com/comics/random_number.png << everybody knows it's 4!!!1111

asciilifeform: and this does not apply to the rest of the quiz items ?

asciilifeform very confused

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: without concept of randomness, it is impossible to explain why it is that what the idjits did was idjotic

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or hard to explain the 'android incident' etc

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: eh sure you do

asciilifeform: it is a very common basic logical mistake among the students.

asciilifeform: gotta ask something about 'random' though

asciilifeform: 'a' or 'd' - 'describe three mutually-orthogonal notions of 'entropy', and their applications.'

asciilifeform: unless you meant 'error-correcting code'

asciilifeform: Adlai: it's an exam, not an open-problems list

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: 'd' (or 'a') - 'what is perfect forward secrecy?'

asciilifeform: 'd' - 'what is meant by a sybil attack?'

asciilifeform: where did he say the 'directed' ?

asciilifeform: (schelling's is rather less rigorous of an animal)

asciilifeform: not quite same item, but if one must have one, i'd have nash's

asciilifeform: 'a' - define nash's equilibrium

asciilifeform: chapter 'c'. 'explain the second-system effect and discuss a well-known case'

asciilifeform: some more randoms,

asciilifeform: hm ok

asciilifeform: but this is rather like 'don't use division in your proggy because you might divide by zero'

asciilifeform: aha then this.

asciilifeform: in such a way as to make the above description false

asciilifeform: unless catastrophically misimplemented

asciilifeform: i am at a total loss as to how this results in a weaker system

asciilifeform: this was not the scheme intended in this puzzle ?

asciilifeform: the use of multiple ciphersystems, presumably (if operator is not entirely retarded) would be something like 'first aes with key k1, then the output with serpent and key k2, then twofish with k3....' etc

asciilifeform: same thing ?

asciilifeform: re: the rsa thing, 'superencryption' is the term of art

asciilifeform: i still don't see it, btw. if re-encrypting could result in weakening, it would be a cryptoanalytic tool (as it in fact is for certain misimplemented rsatrons, actually)

asciilifeform: (the 'chained ciphers' one)

asciilifeform: i suppose that'd be a hint as to the answer, wouldntit

asciilifeform: though how did b-3 end up there ?

asciilifeform: i won't even touch 'b'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is hands-down the part 'b' lecturer, aha

asciilifeform: aha. broader concept.

asciilifeform: mathematics. 'what is a trapdoor function?'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: some suggested items, in no particular order, here goes,

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: spiffy quiz piece

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: but i have given up trying to fit some kind of earthling logic to mircea_popescu's moves

asciilifeform: *riga

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0816/7387/products/RigaSpratsAdro160g_large.jpeg?v=1428892909 << them

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: rigs is a holy place to me, but only for so long as the golden little tins keep a'comin'

asciilifeform reads

asciilifeform: which istria, riga, montreal all are.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i can't picture him choosing to walk usg earth again

asciilifeform: ?

asciilifeform: creates more questions than answers - why this fix, if essential, not snarfed upstream, for instance ?

asciilifeform: ( https://github.com/isislovecruft/python-gnupg )

asciilifeform: aahahahahaha

asciilifeform: 'Fork of python-gnupg-0.3.2, patched to fix a potential vulnerability which could result in remote code execution, do to unsanitised inputs being passed to subprocess.Popen([...], shell=True)'

asciilifeform: jurov: anything in caught in turdatron gluetrap from felipelalli ?

asciilifeform: jurov awake?

asciilifeform: then nfi.

asciilifeform: hm.

asciilifeform: !v assbot:asciilifeform.rate.felipelalli.1:2951510f4374b25561726239e37964d38c3e3dbdca8486ea7d63620deef0271f

asciilifeform: !rate felipelalli 1 therealbitcoin tester

asciilifeform: felipelalli: you gotta be in l2 to write to the ml.

asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-August/000156.html

asciilifeform: mod6, ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu, et al:

asciilifeform: achtung, panzers!

asciilifeform: you didn't.

asciilifeform: mno.

asciilifeform: felipelalli, others: btc-dev@therealbitcoin.org.

asciilifeform: ludovic xiv may say 'l'etat c'est moi', but i am not therealbitcoin !

asciilifeform: if it pertains to therealbitcoin, it belongs on the list

asciilifeform: but polluting my mailbox is a-ok? l0l

asciilifeform: felipelalli: anything pertaining to therealbitcoin

asciilifeform: ;;later tell felipelalli you sent the thing to ~me~ instead of the ml

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: not same starvation

asciilifeform: 'Indeed imagine a world where messages broadcasted publicly could be recorded. A world where screen shots and web archiving tools can preserve the content of broadcasted messages indefinitely, and where comparing the publication medium to an archived record can reveal otherwise unannounced retractions. In short imagine the real world as it actually is.' << gold

asciilifeform: i fully expect to eat every penny i ever saved, at some point, and then starve.

asciilifeform: and pete_dushenski has it.

asciilifeform: mega-possible

asciilifeform: because his 'retirement' is.. last bullet

asciilifeform: it's the one where plantation owner doesn't see any logical reason to give the slave anything to store up

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: do you know which ?

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: there's precisely one that this doesn't work for

asciilifeform: 'millenials' enlisting in some crackpot 'boot camp' and paying for the privilege of receiving the whippings father never gave'em, etc

asciilifeform: i admit that i kinda half expect this sort of thing to catch on

asciilifeform: komyoonity of excellence !!1111!!111

asciilifeform: 'This place is a prison. It’s like living in the Hotel California, except we can’t even drink wine here.'

asciilifeform: l0l!

asciilifeform: 'Imagine one day having your bed converted into a bunk bed without your consent. Being promised food to be included in the fee you pay only to be yelled at when the food runs out. Witnessing an ex-military dude marching around the house yelling at people who didn’t “keep their shit clean enough”. '

asciilifeform: !s from:from_vice

asciilifeform: http://www.startupcastle.org << gone.

asciilifeform: ^ pure lulgold

asciilifeform: ( http://fusion.net/story/134163/silicon-valleys-startup-castle-is-looking-for-roommates-and-the-requirements-are-completely-bonkers )

asciilifeform: ’s campus.' (from same rag)

asciilifeform: re: the evicted 'castle': 'Do you have a fancy college degree or a job in a STEM field? Do you have fewer than two tattoos? Do you avoid Tinder dates and songs with explicit lyrics? Do you spend more than two hours a day exercising? Then you may be qualified to live at the Startup Castle, a self-proclaimed “community of excellence” located in a 17,000-square foot mansion in Woodside, California, just minutes from Stanford

asciilifeform: i mean, this is 'tungsten melts in your mouth'-grade tardation