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mircea_popescu: it "had" it. suppose there's madonna burried in your back yard
mircea_popescu: i dunno dood. but once i figure it out i'll make the computer do what you mean.
mircea_popescu: never, inb the entire history of reichs, was this the case. not once.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: your notion that hitler's ahead of the curve is spurious.
mircea_popescu: i lived my entire life cloaked in a shadow of "nobody saw him coming". i like it.
mircea_popescu: how does "not clear what bitcoin is" beat "bitcoin is IT" ?
mircea_popescu: hitler had reports re the fucking wtc bombings on his own desk.
mircea_popescu: it is ACTUALLY preferable for teh republic that whether rsa is or is not np-complete is not known.
mircea_popescu: if anyone had the proof, i'd ask them to not publish it, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: the field of unknown unknowns always favours the people against the state.
mircea_popescu: the holy grail is this situation where nothing's demonstrated at all.
mircea_popescu: "it was already announced by some researches without a name in a paper without a back copy"
mircea_popescu: look, im not going to give back the major advantage of asym crypto keys just because nsa sponsored implementation and useful rms-ian idiots made a mess of things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do not ask me "how". this question is pointedly forbidden in this context.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform either you make me an infinitely rigid girder or i don;'t want anything to do with you.
mircea_popescu: no dude, spare me. either this problem is solved or woirked on.
mircea_popescu: it helps in precisely the same way as multiple surgical interventions.
mircea_popescu: in principle, i will say "block cipher" is exactly, EXACTLY, provably as retarded as "reusable otp via prng".,
mircea_popescu: basically we're uncovering a decade old, very fragile rube goldberg machine
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is thgat the most likely to be quoted snippet ?
mircea_popescu: ;;google "N-ai fost acolo s-auzi tot ce-am auzit. N-ai fost acolo sa vezi tot ce am vazut. N-ai fost acolo sa vezi tot ce am facut. N-ai fost acolo sa vezi prin tot ce am trecut."
mircea_popescu: and why is it that all the phuctor bad sigs we see are two octet mirrors.
mircea_popescu: the intent is to rape and pillage, for all orcs, by virtue of being orcs.
mircea_popescu: i do not wish to eat in the restaurant where they piss in the beer, irrespective of any other consideration.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's no question left that a usable extant pgp implementaton exists. this should be redone.
mircea_popescu: but still, the situation is not equivalent to "singatures are trivially defeated in the field"
mircea_popescu: competent thieves should be convicted to jail. incompetent thieves should be broken apart with a small hammer.
mircea_popescu expects to live in a world where everything is done EXACTLY as he would do it. failure of perceptible world to conform to this expectation is a crime, more serious than any other, and to be punished by destruction.
mircea_popescu: The concatenation of the data being signed and the signature data from the version number through the hashed subpacket data (inclusive) is hashed. The resulting hash value is what is signed. The left 16 bits of the hash are included in the Signature packet to provide a quick test to reject some invalid signatures.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i guess by being spurred by my recent statement and going into a "let's verify this" mode ?
mircea_popescu: i guess the next top priority in making cardano which was making bitcoin which was making vdiff is now making gpg.