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mircea_popescu: my ~grandparents~ had a buran. though perhaps i said this
mircea_popescu: in memory of this, ima go eat pineapple while watching dollies wash car.
mircea_popescu: cuz "why should kids build toys they didn't pay for" amirite ? apple ftw ?
mircea_popescu: they who build out of compulsion kinda end up like this. no ocd washer ever suffered from "this is clean"
mircea_popescu: wasps only build soundly because genetics ; individually they'd much prefer to build shoddily -- moar building to do!
mircea_popescu: it's lulzy, btw, in all times of plague there emerges this obscure cult of "plague is good for you, get moar rats in your bed" etc.
mircea_popescu: yeah, totally, "inclusive" delivered such great benefits, only more of it could possibly save us.
mircea_popescu: safe enough bet, seeing how it's 99% same as writing code, and they can't do that to save their lives either.
mircea_popescu: with all the "coc" bs, i suspect ~0 white men remaining who even know how to run a technical discussion, or ot what end it is done.
mircea_popescu: but the great gain of this morning is that at least all of this now -- on very readable record.
mircea_popescu: myeah. now, if i could have a cipher that has 512 byte payload, the above "single block" thing'd be satisfied. see ?
mircea_popescu: how about do what you have do more if find more later.
mircea_popescu: eh, delaying terrible strategy. it's how tbf managed its splendid record to date
mircea_popescu: i thought sds came into native blocksizes and yeah sure the driver atop will let you believe w/e.
mircea_popescu: IF i had a workable understanding of block ciphers, we could bake a device-block-tailored cipher and at least have that to show god.
mircea_popescu: the one thing i really don't like is that wtf block devices of two block sizes.
mircea_popescu: well, so in actionables : probably dusting off vdhl worth your time, see how it feels. possibly baking serpentdisk worth your time, tho at this point seems kinda soso.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: note that eg the eulora spec (low value item anyway) has MANY keys.
mircea_popescu: of course once baked could also be put in ~everything else. including say phones or w/e.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "what sort of speed hit" is also a topic.
mircea_popescu: recursive and functional also "sorta inmiscible", at least until bright kid
mircea_popescu: looks to me like about half of what we write, we'll end up baking eventually.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which -- an ada-to-verilog item would prolly be very fucking useful
mircea_popescu: aaaanyways, this out of the way : do you actually have all the parts for this serpentdisk ?
mircea_popescu: but the other point is, yes, "erryone gotta bet". but also, "erryone has finite chips to bet with".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i looked at the both of them things, what can i tell you.
mircea_popescu: nobody's walking anywhere with any rsa pills. now that i'm willing to die with.
mircea_popescu: it comes for free with "here's generic method to attack all of them"
mircea_popescu: "hey guise ? i have a mathematical definition of blockchipher, and guess what comes for free with it."
mircea_popescu: yeah but suppose some bright kid walks into here one day with that item we all suspect is under a rock somewhere
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in short, because this winding discussion risks overwhelming buffers, the salient points are a) that i'm not ready to go to war over serpent, it's a meh-maybe item ; b) that building our spearheads around items we're not willing to die for may be how the converse of
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=bitcoin+corrupts altogether.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (you did end up with a rewired computer on acct of throwing out that mouse, and you bemoan it daily, but soit.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem with computers is that they all tend to be living organisms.
mircea_popescu: it seriously never fucking was meant to be gone over with a microscope, "oh satoshi how could you". fuck you i should wear a caliper attached to my pants in case i doodle in the restaurant also ?
mircea_popescu: except, of course, if the underwear-on-head&over-pants crowd buys it.
mircea_popescu: say inca utters fatwah against block chiphers (ALSO DOESNT MATTER), now we'll go to war for the holy cause of niggers^H^Hblockchiphers ?
mircea_popescu: the poor people touching that shit (ie, that make it, or sell it, or w/e) are suddenly stuck bearing more weight than their rated limits.
mircea_popescu: so yes, i fully expect they'll buy, and then admire the hole we've dug ourselves in : five years down the road, say, as a mental experiment, we've sold 100k of these units, they're 90% of all we've sold, and well... they're still blockshiters. and what's next ? say i utter a fatah against block "ciphering", for good technical reasons or just because i'm insane -- IT DOESNT MATTER, and lo there'll be a lordship schism because
mircea_popescu: ie, they'll buy your used underwear to wear on head just as well.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if experience is any guide, heathens do not buy by rational criteria.
mircea_popescu: but it seems, at least to my dumb eye of today, kinda going the wrong way.
mircea_popescu: i don't expect it'd be a bad thing to have. it's certainly way the fuck more than the whole "market" of the whole "security industry" slash barn.
mircea_popescu: if you're hungry, happy meal not worse than nothing (marginally), but you stiull won't get it.
mircea_popescu: that's what i mean, "a picture of its possible strength emerges from ample discussion of its possible weaknesses"
mircea_popescu: but as it stands, seems sending people to bring me a serpent hdd is not unlike sending people to bring be titted boars. why, can't use women ?
mircea_popescu: now, maybe after eulora's run for a half decade, and there's ACTUAL ~publshed~ research by ACTUAL humans re its strength, THEN i can revisit this discussion from a different hand
mircea_popescu: i agree with that, but im not sure symmetric cipher hdd wins that much.
mircea_popescu: i am experimenting with serpent, and yes it's borne of that ancient discussion of ours, but i'm nowhere near-ready to bake it into "this is tmsr secure disk"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you don't like that, get an antifuse rom chip for it.