214500+ entries in 0.132s
veen: specific
to
tty devices no?
veen: unless i'm grossly misunderstanding
the sematics, reading /dev/random for infinity should produce dat sweet flat spectrum, right?
veen: where's
the problem?
veen: wait, what in
the loop cares about control chars?
trinque: just
to entertain
the
thing, since dev's
this fancy udev
thing now, could have some udev rule
to delete /dev/random and plop another device node in its place, via symlink or w/e
veen: oh it runs output of /dev/random
through it's own ('cs')prng?
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-02-23 19:28 mircea_popescu: how's
that coming along ?
veen: great, but gpg is only one of n programs on my system
that need good random numbers, and i don't care
to recompile
them all
veen: be
that as it may, we don't inhabit a world of sane programs
veen: put it
this way, i couldn't figure out how
to generate a gpg keypair with fuckgoats, because gpg reads /dev/random, and i couldn't work out how
to get fuckgoats (or any other file-like) shimmed in
there
veen: maybe i'm coming at
this in completely
the wrong way
veen: up
to your fuckgoats hardward or driver, i suppose
veen: consider a kernel patch
to bypass /dev/*random insanity with say "just open and read such-and-such file which i
trust has acceptably random bytes in it"
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 15:53 asciilifeform: not a difficult patch, but remains
to ask, for which kernel.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: not looking for an answer, it's a compliment on
the his prolific output
ben_vulpes: how many hours does it
take
to pay your rent?
mircea_popescu: (but nice
trick with
the archive
there, got me
to check out reddit and it wasn't even
talking about me!)
mircea_popescu: turns out "the biftinex hack" was ~= same as "the mtgox blabla", ie usg ran off with
the coins ?
mircea_popescu: this could be because "rape" (this happened before, a few
trilema articles
that google unhappened) ; or maybe
triloxic content finally got its comeuppance.
mircea_popescu: o hey check it out -- latest
trilema article not actually indexed by google.
mircea_popescu: anyway, re "online
trolling", it's by now a rather
transparent euphemism for "racist homophobic
terrorism" aka "russia influencing elections" aka pantsuit clown getting raped by reality.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-22 07:26 mircea_popescu: anyway,
there's a common
thread going
through
the google go ai, attempts
to "secure
the banking system against risk",
the surveillance state / internet of
things / smart cars and so on.
trinque: it has now been zero minutes since
the last all
time low for USD
a111: Logged on 2016-12-11 21:09 asciilifeform:
trinque: it is a very simple
thing,
think 'rpn calculator' and you almost have it.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: 'SPARKify'? reduce existing code
to fit into SPARK subset of ada?
mircea_popescu: i
think it's a good
time
to release (provided it doesn't
turn into a wires
thing eh!), we can have it on qntra and "republic same day response" etc.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-11 23:00 asciilifeform: i was not going
to expand on
the 'p'
thread until
the proggy is done, but
this is probably a good
time
to say 1 more
mircea_popescu: (and, of course, we have, courtesy of you know,
that "unreasonable expenditure
that will spell
the ruin of s.nsa and with it of
the entire republic!!11" a complete list of all rsa moduli.)
mircea_popescu: anyway.
to get back
to
the point of interest : it is entirely possible
to produce a 'i eat
toe fungus!', signed, sincerely, 0x8A736F0E2FB7B452. ; but it is not possible
to hide
the fact
that
this was a fake from
the owner of
the privkey and anyone who has his pubkey.
mircea_popescu: i'm not disputing
that part ; just saying
that it's not exactly a surprise.
mircea_popescu: we started moving away from sha-1
to sha-512 digests for clearsigned messages what, coupla years back ?
mircea_popescu: if you --import it gpg will probably update
trinque's key under your signature won't it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform o hey, consider
this situation : 1. i know your fp, so i make fake key for
that fp. 2. i know
trinque 's fp, so i make fake key for
that fp
too. 3. i know you keep a signed copy of
trinque's key on your keyring ; so : 4. i proceed
to sign
trinque's fake key with your fake key and 5. pretend
to be a noob and give you my gpg pubkey.
☟︎