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phf: hehe, i'd be surprised if somebody even attempted to.
mircea_popescu: nobody is going to take the entropy bait are they.
framedr: owait, 'isrg root' is mozilla's root lol. i thought, third party. it's a root they created
mircea_popescu: for some reason it dun work on my systems and i dun feel like debugging it for them
framedr: their root is one 'ISRG root', trusted by firefox as of 2016 it seems, but it makes a whooooolotta sense to tend to one's cert garden manually as mircea_popescu does. (then again, if it's all snakeoil anyway?..)
framedr: (granted, bootstrap website is not the most amazing rigorous proof)
mircea_popescu: well meanwhile it fell off [my version of] the internet.
asciilifeform: the funnybit is that it ~still~only exists in this form
mircea_popescu: i still think the item existed and was quoted in the dude's slides as a phuctor decoy and nothing more. this is not really something i can be talked out of through showing that a website wireframe existed ~same eyar.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the paper existed in '13 certainly, i read it. but the actual data wasn't public, then or now.
mircea_popescu: framedr eh take it ezzy :)
mircea_popescu: btw ben_vulpes consider changing the reference point to #trilema in your seminal and widely quoted http://cascadianhacker.com/07_v-tronics-101-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-most-serene-republic-of-bitcoins-cryptographically-backed-version-control-system ?
framedr: (server down for 'emergency maintenace'. yes will move to dedicated, no this is not acceptable, OP sucks dicks)
mircea_popescu: anyone want to take a stab at it ?
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> eightyeight what are the differences, for my curiosity ?"
mircea_popescu: <eightyeight> he clearly doesn't understand the differences between shannon entropy and entropy as defined by the 2nd law of thermodynamics
mircea_popescu: well, the guy is evidently not in the mood to indulge, but let's try this. "<eightyeight> his "Is there such a thing as better or worse entropy ?" paragraph is equally as painful to read
mircea_popescu: it wasn't much foir the first coupla though. as these things usually go.
Framedragger: ah k, need to keep in mind. almost four years going, good stuff!
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2013-10-19#353492 << 2013 for the record. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: thanks for indulging the mess.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger because webarchive is worth trusting about as far as you can throw alexa, an amazon company, in the business of making up shit about the web since the 90s.
mircea_popescu: "The service will also report whether we have seen the same key in use in other certificates or served from other IP addresses, which can help identify default or repeated keys."
Framedragger: why the fuck did it tell me it had a 2012 snapshot if it's defo not available tho, lol
mircea_popescu: i suppose that's one way to go about it.
mircea_popescu: ah it tests against "our db of weak keys".
Framedragger: ^ probably worth a peek. tls/ssh as input.
mircea_popescu: i would like to see something. put you in my shoes and see what you'd like to see ?
Framedragger: hm. definitely not live, because it's not, you know, static. you wish to see the frontend?
mircea_popescu: Framedragger can i see the 2012 version of the verification service ?
mircea_popescu: 5.57%. this implies a sample of no less than 1795332 items (of which 100000 came out this way) because iirc 557 is a prime number.
mircea_popescu: anyway. this looks like an empty placeholder. i see nothing in there. can i verify any claim in any way ?
mircea_popescu: Framedragger tjhere is some skullduggery at work here, as that link redirects me to a 2013 item ( web.archive.org/web/20121023082642/factorable.net
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: web archive says 2012, when i click its link it takes me to http://web.archive.org/web/20130310014945/https://factorable.net/ (note, 2013), but i think it's because there was no change between its first archived instance (23 oct 2012) and this 2013. anyway, no proof, sure
mircea_popescu: phf can you with not so much effort point out to me what netbsd anything he did ?
mircea_popescu: Framedragger i'll take your word for it. if i DIDN'T though, what steps could you take to enact this truth ?
Framedragger: okay, look, their paper was published in 2012. people referred to it as "that 2012 paper". now it's possible all them people are sybils, but i'll go ahead and say that factorable came before phuctor.
mircea_popescu: and otherwise, the website doesn't load, not for me not for archive.is
phf: most of the lisp developers here know riastradh by his paredit, but he's otherwise a competent scheme developer
mircea_popescu: oldest item from them, 17 may 2015, https://archive.is/9CIuQ
Framedragger: also it's still around, but uses a cert that you (probably for good reason) hate
mircea_popescu: i have domains i registered pre 2000 i never bothered to use. i'd say link me, but...
mod6: up and testing on FG #3.
mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/2Vd6G for teh posterity.
mircea_popescu: this, of course, has ~nothing to do with its failure at that intended task, a much younger Framedragger would assure us.)
mircea_popescu: (for they following at home : factorable.net, an item existing entirely to try and pretend like phuctor didn't happen -- no longer exists on the web.
mircea_popescu: factorable.net, of course. phuctor never heard of, of course. totally innocent bystander.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, intel provideds us with a Taylor Campbell anchor for the ~riastradh@netbsd/developer/riastradh symbol, and other than an empty packages maintainer list, choice items such as https://www.slideshare.net/eurobsdcon/devrandom
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one can't well shake the suspicion the reason intel isn't keen to share raw stream is the fear that you'd poke it at the wrong time.
Framedragger: less turbulence.
Framedragger: maybe it's the costa rican air
Framedragger: asciilifeform: yeah that's just insane :/
mircea_popescu: in other weird news, i've apparently gotten hella-good at handling wanna-be leahs, on the basis of nothing in particular. meditation, i guess, not like i've even interacted with the unfiltered refuse of angloshpere since the cat-v adventure.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> even build -- himself. << one of the things im gonna be doing here, maybe with some handholding, is flashing xilinx chip with your fg.v
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: badump-tss! something like 'flocking', in that particular case. though, yeah, maybe exactly opposite (leahs flock to places)
asciilifeform: they 1) whiten with sha 2) won't under any circumstance give access to the raw input.
asciilifeform: same problem with intel's ( probably the most ubiquitous hardware rng )
Framedragger: that is depressingly sad isn't it. fair enough, good to know...
asciilifeform: Framedragger: re earlier thread : i looked far and wide to possibly buy rng to compare with -- and found nothing worth buying ( no, i won't compare with whitened; i won't pay 20,000 $+ for a box of schematicless ??? ; etc )
asciilifeform: public idiots have this notion, that somehow they are not public idiots if there is no (easily found) log.
mircea_popescu: this "we don't have a log" hurr is becoming the #1 dunning-kruger symptom. they dun have one and dun know why they'd miss it, just like i wouldn't havce known in 2012.
asciilifeform: because these are issued, 1 per heathen pit.
asciilifeform: and oh lol, they have their own leah apparently.
mircea_popescu: they just dun has it. will write reviews for pizza hut where they go.
mircea_popescu: the sad fact of the matter is that there isn't some sort of large pocket of life out there that's being somehow missed on.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this very neatly mirrors the failure of same general population to make bitcoin via eulora.
asciilifeform: no love/hate/any mail re the design, either, interestingly -- design, is public, anyone could read.
phf: i suspect that no vocal nonwot bought FUCKGOATS. it's either inwot, or else lurkers, that otherwise don't have any kind of presence. won't start participating with a review (even though that's probably a reason way to put self on radar)
asciilifeform: i'd naively imagine that if they hated, or loved, or some combination, they might write, somewhere.
mircea_popescu: hey, they paid, that completes their obligations.
asciilifeform: kako at one point threatened to buy one, and could make a fine critic. but never could be arsed.
mircea_popescu: may take a while.
asciilifeform: mod6, mircea_popescu : i'm still waiting for one of the non-tmsr folx who bought, to publicly write something...
mod6: ah true enough; be nice to have some outside anal
Framedragger: i mean, testing and comparing results of these rngs is probably useful (i'm outta time as of now), hm
mod6: could shortcircut that part in the random device?
mod6: yah, there's that too.
asciilifeform: which is not a thing that appears to EXIST on the market.
asciilifeform: mod6: the thing to compare against would be another UNWHITENED rng.
mod6: would be good to get these tests from at least 3 different people.
mod6: doesn't probably do us all justice if I run some of these test collections on some shitty hardware i may or may not have.
mod6: indeed, could take weeks if not months
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: seems to go to checkout page for me at http://moonbase.tictail.com/
mod6: and do that like on a bunch of different environments; gentoo, ubuntu 12/14/16, freebsd recent, openbsd (old?) and recent, deb 7 & 8, osx whatever versions
asciilifeform: mod6: might take a while.
mod6: the only other thing I could do, would be to just collect /dev/random until >~1Gb then run the same tests.
mircea_popescu: sure, but i dun think the website worx ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i ain't particularly interested in testing whitened 't'rng , also
mod6: like Mr. P. can run same tests, see what it looks like compared to mod6's.
mircea_popescu: can anyone actually buy this thing ? if i click on "buy for 40 bucks" nothing happens
mod6: asciilifeform: indeed. which is partly why maybe my posting these is useful for other folks. we can compare and contrast our fg's at least.
trinque: happy with their lives in the goop tube
asciilifeform: mod6: one of my chronic irritants re testing fg is that i have nothing whatsoever worth comparing against.
mod6: once all 5 are done, i'll pull together something more comprehensive for comparison; currently, i just have the raw output test data.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: them heathens dun have logz, do they.
mod6: yeah, very steady on that part Framedragger
trinque: not so much the copying as 1) copy what? and 2) why are the copies so lossy
mod6: Will be moving on to third FG next.
phf: i think the name is very much reminiscent of phrack oldschoolery, presumably before "Captain_Beezay" was old enough to computers
a111: Logged on 2014-10-28 12:51 asciilifeform: 2) http://moonbaseotago.com/onerng/schematic.png << vendor schematic. see bottom-right-hand, 'AP3105' switching voltage-booster. it's there because 3v is not enough to run an avalanche diode. guess how the booster works?