asciilifeform: typically users of pgp/gpg upload their public keys there, and they can later be retrieved by anyone using a hash of the key

asciilifeform: entirely automatic

asciilifeform: alphonse23_: it isn't one specific server, but a network of mirrors

asciilifeform: alphonse23_: instead we found that someone is uploading carefully modified versions of other people's keys to sks key server net

asciilifeform: alphonse23_: the idea is to find evidence of sabotaged implementations of rsa key generator.

asciilifeform: alphonse23_: basic idea, which is very old, is that euclid's greatest-common-divisor algorithm is very fast, for arbitrarily large numbers. so if two or more rsa keys were to share a factor, it will pop up.

asciilifeform: alphonse23_: 'phuctor' deals only with traditional rsa keys.

asciilifeform: alphonse23_: http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/thematic_tutorials/numtheory_rsa.html << worked examples

asciilifeform: alphonse23_: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RSAEncryption.html for example.

asciilifeform: alphonse23_: rsa is not especially complicated. you can understand the basic idea after an hour's study

asciilifeform: alphonse23_: 'checking them all', given current of foreseeable technology, would take several thousand years.

asciilifeform: williamdunne: please stop.

asciilifeform: williamdunne: i think we have a genuine noob here, and you are addling him

asciilifeform: or rsa in general

asciilifeform: is the question specifically concerning the buggy debian rng ?

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: alphonse23_: no. the size of the modulus, typically a product of two primes

asciilifeform: alphonse23_: author of 'phuctor' speaking. you had questions ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: alphonse23_: you still there?

asciilifeform: !up alphonse23_

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: and an unusually entertaining orlol: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/06/crazyland.html

asciilifeform: some miscellaneous lulz: http://larvatus.livejournal.com/558422.html

asciilifeform: ;;isup trilema.com

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: 'oderint dum metuant' (TM) (R)

asciilifeform: in other lulz, http://nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/DB096A7B64B9F4A9CE82785D9AF80E50E2AAE4BCC607BF6BFDACDD92BF65873C << we already had it in 'magic 98' yes

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-06-2015#1151037 << obligatory >> http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s129/PeaceNikki72/uAgkm.jpg << originally a u.s. politico spoof, but has been 'memed' for many years with various photodiddles ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: update since last night: got reply from mf. they will re-do the duds.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-06-2015#1151226 << looks like a dude 'enjoying' a homemade dulap !? ☝︎

asciilifeform: looks surprisingly 'modern'

asciilifeform: why?

asciilifeform: decimation: can't say that i have

asciilifeform: decimation: not visibly

asciilifeform: but oddly enough, that one is 100% on target

asciilifeform: so that'd be the smallest pitch

asciilifeform: well, there is a third ic, sot353

asciilifeform: one would think!

asciilifeform: it was deliberately designed for hand-assembly

asciilifeform: 100% 0805 passives, two soic-8 ics

asciilifeform: it very seldom gets simpler than what i had them make

asciilifeform: decimation: double-digit defect rate.

asciilifeform: decimation: to make long story short, the folks at macrofab are helpful and apparently well-intentioned, but they assemble using slaves, and it shows.

asciilifeform: won't spoil it.

asciilifeform: decimation: read this month's broadcast when it comes out.

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu last line of broadcast is not strictly correct - i also have a small number that i hand-assembled. but these don't count for the purpose of evaluating mf. corp.

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu you've got mailz

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: idk

asciilifeform: http://www.getlofi.com/uploaded_images/85_1_b-766859.JPG

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: but question was 'how to change network it connects to', no ?

asciilifeform: well yes

asciilifeform: !up shinohai

asciilifeform: go, change.

asciilifeform: shinohai: http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/src/irc.cpp#0270

asciilifeform: but at present time this has not happened.

asciilifeform: stands to reason that once enemy engages he'll begin to spam the remaining irc seed chans - or even backport mechanism to his branch

asciilifeform: currently best.

asciilifeform: what is 'normally' ?

asciilifeform: shinohai: irc seeding was snipped from the gavin branch long ago

asciilifeform: shinohai: irc gives next best thing: 100% pre-gavinization nodes

asciilifeform: the irc mechanism is perhaps the only built-in seed thing worth keeping

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-06-2015#1149602 << and kept what? the hardcoded ip seeds, of which 2 or 3 are alive? the hardcoded dns seeds, controlled by the enemy? srsly ☝︎

asciilifeform: afaik they still have the 'thin' working

asciilifeform picks up phone, calls airline, asks to buy ticket to country where they have thin smart people with non-governmental money

asciilifeform: regardless of what kind of pig you might own, the hucksters will gladly sell you fourteen varieties of s333k0000r1ty!!!11 lipstick for it.

asciilifeform: hence the form factor.

asciilifeform: Vexual: the only (usable) hole in a google pNohe

asciilifeform: thestringpuller, decimation: whether snowden & co. started out as psyop or not, fact is that at this point it is 100% a marketing machine for 'vaults' and 'redpNohes' of a thousand and one kinds

asciilifeform: Vexual: sd card with single-chip 'crypto coprocessor' (a la the atmel turd discussed a few months ago; possibly even the very same) - with extra holy water and marketing drivel included

asciilifeform: at any rate, google is ripping off folks like https://www.nitrokey.com and the two or three similar items discussed in previous logs

asciilifeform: onetimepad with goose quill pens and dice is still more credible alternative than anything out of usg & co.

asciilifeform: http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2014/08/the-nsa-tried-this-before-what-the-90s-debate-over-the-clipper-chip-can-teach-us-about-digital-privacy-debates << moar on the subject. tabloid, but with pretty picturez.

asciilifeform: http://opensource.com/government/15/2/us-government-retires-clipper-chip << not formally retracted as usg proclamation until 2015 !

asciilifeform: the first time around, they made the mistake of being honest about the intentions of backdooring

asciilifeform: for young people >> https://epic.org/crypto/clipper << the original usg cardano.

asciilifeform: auditability? what's that.

asciilifeform: 'It also has an NFC chip and an antenna (for proving that you are in control and that it’s correctly authorized).' l0l!!!

asciilifeform: snore.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i'm seeing a microsd single-chip turd

asciilifeform: (anyone recall 'clipper' ?)

asciilifeform: can't wait for the usg cardano.

asciilifeform: ?

asciilifeform: this only goes so far

asciilifeform: !up Vexual

asciilifeform: why the hell would anyone pay anyone to, e.g., kill mosquitoes, when 'deadheads' who paid nothing still get the 'product' (avoiding bites) ?

asciilifeform: no one will ever make a living, much less get rich, selling the sun.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-05-2015#1143424 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-05-2015#1143425 ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: (buncha derps get fed by usg for pretending to operate in bitcoin; very different affair)

asciilifeform: see also http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=22-05-2015#1143414 ☝︎

asciilifeform: and that no one ought to be surprised by this

asciilifeform: the other basic observation is that bitcoin per se feeds no one

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=11-05-2015#1128353 << this. ☝︎

asciilifeform: wake me up when there exists anything other than hobbyists in the space.

asciilifeform: most folks have had some (albeit unconscious) encounters with it - riding airplanes, etc ☟︎

asciilifeform: there -exists- software not crafted out of duct tape and gum

asciilifeform: (see old mircea_popescu thread re: proof)