asciilifeform: original pgp was not an apparatus for one-off deals with strangers, but something to use between friends, as i understand.
asciilifeform: rather than something to resist attack of any kind
asciilifeform: hence the 'key id' was meant as merely a soft handle to quickly pick out the right pubkey.
asciilifeform: and hence have a reasonably confident idea of genuine key for.
asciilifeform: davout: a little subtler than that. the original assumption was that you would only ever verify sigs from folks you had a proper key party with
asciilifeform: or, alternatively, like the choice of 'aes' over the stronger but 'slower' 'serpent' cipher, it was merely orders from lizardhitler.☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: 'it saves a few bytes' probably sounded like 'good reason' to the authors.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: none afaik. the standard simply sucks.
asciilifeform: 'In April was the jackal born, In June the rain-fed rivers swelled: 'Never in all my life,' said he, 'Have I so great a flood beheld.'' (orwell)
asciilifeform: decimation: another interesting fact re: usa is that rental properties are scarce to nonexistent when you walk out of the high-density areas
asciilifeform: from the standpoint of vermin - yes, valuable
asciilifeform: i can easily picture an 'atomic war' where every btc which usg has at some point begged, borrowed, stole, or can prevail upon a vassal to give up control of - will be placed on market in a 'last hurrah'
asciilifeform: i'm not seeing any serious evidence of 'long-term' thinking on usg's part.
asciilifeform: but baking tradeability in as a matter of course - is another thing
asciilifeform: in point of fact, even our system of reputation (wot) is theoretically 'tradeable', in that somebody could - in principle - sell his privkey to satan
asciilifeform: 'A key feature of Augur is tradeable Reputation. The total amount of Reputation is a fixed quantity, determined upon the launch of Augur. Holding Reputation entitles its owner to report on the outcomes of events, after the events occur. Reputation tokens are similar in other respects to Bitcoins: they are divisible to eight decimal places, they are accounted for by summing over unspent transaction outputs, and they can be sent
asciilifeform: this is assuming that we have a reasonably certain copy of his pubkey pre-dating the events. which, iirc, we do.
asciilifeform: he could easily, if he wished, demonstrate what the genuine material was, and what has been doctored or made up wholesale.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do you find it interesting that, despite the legend of snowden having used gpg, we have no signatures from him pertaining to any of the material ?
asciilifeform: or perhaps -those- folks don't go in for 'powerpoint.'
asciilifeform would like to see the -other- slide deck.
asciilifeform: (and that there is another one, where it wasn't. but i think we did this one before)
asciilifeform: in my diseased mind, the parsimonious hypothesis is that there is actually an nsa where that deck was genuinely crapped out by earnest monkeys who believe every word.
asciilifeform: who, by all indications, was swallowed some time ago.
