asciilifeform: can be entirely ruled out in a correct design.
asciilifeform: length extension is an operator error thing strictly.
asciilifeform: md5 long buried, and cement poured over the grave
asciilifeform: (more of an observation re: ciphers than hashes. until recently, usg did not give a rat's arse re: hashes)
asciilifeform: it always boggled my mind how anyone could have ever seen 'fips' etc. as representing anything other than 'breakable by usg with reasonable cost'
asciilifeform: it works like this: folks mail in suggestions (naturally only incestuous academitards from nato countries considered! no untermenschem plz!)
asciilifeform: battleship we have the unsinkable Military Expert . . .'
asciilifeform: that the days of tank warfare were over; in mid 1940 they were telling us that the Germans would invade Britain forthwith; in mid 1941 that the Red army would fold up in six weeks; in December 1941, that Japan would collapse after ninety days; in July 1942, that Egypt was lost and so on, more or less indefinitely. Where now are the men who told us those things? Still on the job, drawing fat salaries. Instead of the unsinkable
asciilifeform: 'ONE way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary. Looking back through the diary I kept in 1940 and 1941 I find that I was usually wrong when it was possible to be wrong. Yet I was not so wrong as the Military Experts. Experts of various schools were telling us in 1939 that the Maginot Line was impregnable, and that the Russo-German Pact had put an end to Hitlers eastwards expansion; in early 1940 they were telling us☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i live in 'civilization', recall.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: don't like the smell. and neighbours won't either
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hence why even the lowliest schmuck owns shredder
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these are pestilential here
asciilifeform: 'borrow 500k! you know you wanna!!1111!!11'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wouldn't want to burn the confetti from this one. on account of every other snail mail envelope containing an unsolicited plastic bank card