asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: right. you arrange to have the turd jumped to after sig check.
asciilifeform: re: tx issue: this is reminiscent of microshit's EXE signing. where you can append whatever to the signed turd and it still passes checksum.
asciilifeform: the 'plant in the audience' recipe, etc.
asciilifeform: benkay: the "ship to forum sockpuppets" asic ploy << there is much to be learned from carnival / stage magic tradecraft re: scams
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: von neumann widget, lol. can't wait for some joker to start 'predicting market'
asciilifeform: the turtle statue traditionally gets 'offerings' during exam week. this year, more whiskey bottles and handmade bongs than ever before.
asciilifeform: there is a statue on the campus, car-sized, so many of the locals think it must be a gigantic sea-turtle.
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: just so happens i'm into a number of things.
asciilifeform: (anyone playing with mceliece and the like will find something delicious therein)
asciilifeform: unrelated: neat find, from today's trip to library, for all crypto aficionados: 'Post-Quantum Cryptography.' Bernstein, Buchmann & Dahmen. (2009)
asciilifeform: i'd dearly love for it to be found. so i'm not stuck building the damn thing.
asciilifeform: i post this turd here, to challenge the 1,000 idlers listening to us, to do so.
asciilifeform: i did try to find some prior art, of some kind. found none.
asciilifeform: if 'fundamental' means 'discover new field of mathematics', then clearly not.
asciilifeform: depends on your definition of fundamental. robotics without motors, gears, shafts, lubrication...
asciilifeform: this alone should be enough detail for any 'alert reader' to replicate...
asciilifeform: 2 yrs. ago i figured out how to flex a fairly ordinary multi-conductor cable in an arbitrary spot, at an arbitrary angle, purely electrically.☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: i have so little faith in the meta-nsa that i'll drop one here.
asciilifeform: fundamental ideas are still possible.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in a world where every "idea" is in fact chewed and spit and chewed so many times by so many generations by now all that's left is the spit itself << not quite.
asciilifeform: francis_wolke: phun phact. my first paying job was 'activate somatic telomerase.' project croaked from utter lack of the necessary depth of understanding.
asciilifeform: idiot hipster asks for pgp tattoo, gets rot-13.
asciilifeform: haha that'd be hilarious in the pgp case
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: speaking of which, are PGP tattoos still in fashion, i wonder.
asciilifeform: any moron can waltz into a russian academic bookstore and buy all he can eat.
asciilifeform: phun phact: many of the still-officially-secret docs from manhattan proj. are available in dead-tree print - in russian, naturally.
asciilifeform: betcha if you plucked the quasi-mythical Pill Against RSA from its Indiana Jones subterranean vault, perhaps six people alive would understand what they are looking at were it shown to them.☟︎
asciilifeform: keeping a secret from the man on the street is trivial. often, you could run his nose in it and it will stay 'secret.'
asciilifeform: but it does not follow that either was a 'perfect secret'
asciilifeform: it is very easy to draw mistaken conclusions from the fact that the 'man on the street' was entirely unaware of manhattan p. (or 'operation gladio', for a more recent example)
asciilifeform: (manhattan project was no secret to GRU.)
asciilifeform: francis_wolke: further reading. GRU report based on U.S. silver purchases in 1941-43.
