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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the idea is to import gribble's wot but mark it as gribble's, and allow others to import assbot's wot.
mircea_popescu: stupid fucking name. anyway, towards the end there's some good foundational stuff. perhaps not directly useful for the purpose at hand, but very good to get your head swiveled in the right position
mircea_popescu: nono it was a course, you were supposed to email your results
mircea_popescu: i been looking for it magically can't find it. the one that had the rsa break in the last fascicle
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you got a link to that hacking course thing that was crypto oriented ?
mircea_popescu: Using Cryptography Against Cryptography. Adam Young and Moti Yung.
mircea_popescu: even if you use rsa-only keys, you can rsa-encrypt a message so that it's easier to break but still decryptable by destination.
mircea_popescu: artifexd not to be taken lightly this. a lot can be compromised in gossipd crypto.
mircea_popescu: seems a reasonable approach tbh, but generally people should free to use whatever they wish to use.
mircea_popescu: as opposed to... well... it's what the build pulled in.
mircea_popescu: anyway. guy can use whatever crypto routines he's comfortable with, on the general understanding that he's read them and is actually comfortable with them
mircea_popescu: if only great wautu blessed us with some unquestionable crypto routines.
mircea_popescu: if i pick a barber i don't go by the straight razor brand.
mircea_popescu: well ok, sure, but still. i dun see the problem, so b-a guy wants to play with go. his choice, his signature, why is this an issue.
mircea_popescu: dude you can't impeach people on the grounds that they ate with hitler.
mircea_popescu: listen, if you don't start fucking girls born after X at some point, you'll be stuck in wrinkle heaven.
mircea_popescu: well... guess what ? nobody ever read fucking linux, either.
mircea_popescu: but i still dunno wtf is wrong with it. so, it has open compiler. it has open libraries.
mircea_popescu: well yes. that way it gets implemented in two languages.
mircea_popescu: well so why do you want him to also write it in c ? go is a better choice neh ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so other people like other languages, big whoop.
mircea_popescu: well you know it occurs to me it'd be a lot more productive if you go in early with a "hey, could it please be c ? i would like to run this on mips" discussion than a late paniucwhen guy picks whatever he happened to pick.
mircea_popescu: so c is a gnu proprietary language ? what's a proprietary language ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what's the problem anyway, you weren't going to run his binaries ? no os compiler for it ?
mircea_popescu: so... what do you mean not everybody on the internet is a dumbass ?
mircea_popescu: hey, the average domestic animal regards its keeper as an animal of the same age and the same gender as it is.
mircea_popescu: yes. as ideas spread on the internet, the derps they touch become increasingly nonsensical.
mircea_popescu: also, if they never hear a dissenting opinion ever again that'll be soon enough.
mircea_popescu: same here : not doing anything, but hey, they're "involved" with bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: not learning anything, but hey, they've gone to college.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no im pretty sure he has it. "they feel like they're doing something". much like their education.
mircea_popescu: i mostly hung out with the girls. and if the girls didn't show up i mostly harrangued the prof.
mircea_popescu: teward you are aware this place has a history and so on, right ? read it and all ?
mircea_popescu: in that it drastically limits the pool of potential attackers and attackable material.
mircea_popescu: well, depending of what you actually need to sign, never putting your signed matter over the wire unencrypted can help a lot.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly : today i find that prior to 1820 or so, hawaii was all-nude, and that the proper an' traditional hula dance is to be done without panties or other apparel.
mircea_popescu: and inasmuch as you're a person rather than an organisation, "forced coercion" is really not very much use.
mircea_popescu: entropy could be more important for encryption than signing.