asciilifeform: davout: i cannot comment re: whether 20th anniversary thing censored any of the goodies from 2nd ed, or added nonsense. but it strikes me as likely.
asciilifeform: (picture the stereotypical schoolboy who logs in to change his marks. does he change his and chums' alone? only if idiot)
asciilifeform: and how many of the data points are smokescreen ?
asciilifeform: and the various 'pirate party' folks, perhaps, will take some pleasure in seeing their names in this list.
asciilifeform: other observations - some of the items on the target list are of obvious diddlomatic interest; others are probably humint targets - some of them, rather intriguing, e.g., mr robert j hansen of http://sixdemonbag.org/bio.xhtml
asciilifeform: (such as 10x speedup, new tests - e.g., pollard-rho; etc)
asciilifeform: i presently suspect that there are versions of sks (and/or other pgptronics) which will stupidly display a legit fp for the magical keys.
asciilifeform: until i saw the auto-updater crud, my most parsimonious hypothesis re: the matter treated in last section of mircea_popescu's article was that the buggers built a straight chumpmagnet, where lusers would search sks for email addr. of someone or other, and end up with latest key (try it) displayed being one of the 'magic' ones☟︎
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: postscript suffers from precisely same problems as pdf (which is, after all, a minor variation on the former)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: item in question treated rsa weakening from the use of peculiarly large exponents.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i keep various cheap gadgets around that will eat pdfs. you can get chinese printer that will, etc. (why? well, mathematical material is not likely to exist in any other form)
