asciilifeform: this, famously, is why you don't ever want to give public access to a mechanism which tries to decrypt messages supplied by public
asciilifeform: and yes, you can recover bits of key from faults, ~if said faults take place on a machine with knowledge of the private key~ !
asciilifeform: on top of this, i hope it is obvious to everyone that the problem of divining any bits of the private key from the public, mutilated or not, is equivalent to breaking rsa
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: it is just oh so precious when folks who download fresh mystery meat in bin form every day of the week and give it full run of their machine, make noises about 'security'
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: didn't say it was an elixir of immortality. just a baseline for literacy
asciilifeform: 'average guy' isn't worth the materials needed to tan his hide
asciilifeform: and Run Moar Binariez You Didn't Build Yourself
asciilifeform: m-like flame." / The die, insulted past repair, / Chose not to bandy words with her.' (Morgenstern, transl. by Arndt)
asciilifeform: 'The Die. A die complained: "I have not been / Quite comfortable in my skin. / Of my six planes, the sitting side, / And bore it but my single mark, / Must ever gaze, not far and wide, / But into earth's eternal dark." When earth beneath him heard the cube, / She very nearly blew a tube. / "You jackass," said she, "what a farce! / I'm dark when covered by your arse! / As soon as you will move the same, I'll shine as with a ge
