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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.
mircea_popescu: 1. full rsa. 2. proper signature encapsulation. 3. sane structuring of the keys. 4. etfc.
mircea_popescu: deep restructuring of the pgp implementation is required anyway.
mircea_popescu: if the signed thing is not a thing, or if the signed thing is not available fgor my eyes, no problem has in fact been solved.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the concept of me being able to read the singed thing with my eyes is not broken.
mircea_popescu: (ps "c'est etonnant" is no good, in french. "delicious" is worse.)
mircea_popescu: mats obama's only actual initiative. fucked in the ass.
mircea_popescu: toothpaste and lobster, why not, i would like some veal in sauce chantilly and a dollop of cream on my cigar.
mircea_popescu: The rest of us who actually make shit happen in the front lines of consensus back on planet earth will continue to be unaffected by your efforts apart from their modest value as chuckle fuel over beers and sushi."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Welcome, kiddo, to how the real world works. You go ahead and place your crazy protest bids way off in the bottom of the sociological order book and scream that someday, SOMEDAY, the market will come down to meet you, and you will be vindicated.
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: lol buttcoin engaging danielpbarron over gpg etc was pretty lulzy to read.
mircea_popescu: fucking abcnews. the defense didn't "decline to do so". the defense DECLINED TO RECOGNISE THE COURT!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: oh never mind, my bad. they held silence in protest over jurisdiction.
mircea_popescu: since when the fuck do defense lawyers have agency in court.
mircea_popescu: "A Wisconsin court today entered not guilty pleas on behalf of the two teen defendants in the "Slender Man" stabbing case after their lawyers declined to do so."