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mircea_popescu: it compares the pubkey it has stored (and which you hopefully signed) to the shit in the hash of the signed document to establish it was not merely signed but actually signed by x.
mircea_popescu: so having a "signature apparently by 8A736F0E2FB7B452, could not verify" is one thing. "good signature from user MP 8A736F0E2FB7B452" is another thing.
mircea_popescu: nsa reads like a third of their "secure" comms on this basis.
mircea_popescu: a point so fucking readily lost on derpjournos you wouldn't begin to believe.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes gpg saying "signed by x" means nothing if you don't have x's pubkey to check.
mircea_popescu: no ppl i r not insane tyvm stop pming me. i am aware that through the process as described signatures never get in fact verified and one could create a colision and sign for someone else. this is not a bug, it's a fucking feature. you ARE supposed to check YOURSELF the fucking sigs if you intend to rely on the signed documents. it's the only way to implement this correctly.
mircea_popescu: MolokoDeck it's included in the signature block of the signed thing.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "Now this wasn't particularly notable at all. Now a lot of mining companies are crawling" << you are not allowed to use now as the first word in two consecutive sentences
mircea_popescu: this warning we squarely ignore, because if gribble knows who x is so do we
mircea_popescu: when you feed a string to gpg you either get a "nonsense" complaint or a "signed by X" response, with a warning that "we can't know who x is "
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol nah i want it to always send from the same address.
mircea_popescu: i need more coffee, amphetamines and cuntjuice over here.
mircea_popescu: it does not verify the signatures. it merely extracts w/e signature gpg sees in the document.
mircea_popescu: ok, so say what the thing is again, let's see if i say yes this time.
mircea_popescu: if someone breaks in and steals the bitcent, hey, more power to them.
mircea_popescu: MolokoDeck it's never going to own more than a bitcent or w/e
mircea_popescu: all these fucking successful derps for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: so i figure why no give clueless noobs a chance. send an order "
http://mediaparty.info/2014/ << find the afterparty". half hour later, "i can't find anything. nobody is sayinga word on sm, there's ONE picture of a guy and some wine on twitter without enough background to find where it is or anything".
mircea_popescu: this way you don't have to keep updated keyrings locally or verify signatures in any wya
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: MolokoDeck so basically, bot reads each document, extracts declared sig, puts it to gribble
mircea_popescu: ;;gpg info --key 6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452
mircea_popescu: it would extract the nicks from the signatures in the .txt. the mechanism to do this relies on gribble, did you see that ping ?
mircea_popescu: MolokoDeck nevermind what one wants, say what the thing does.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell peterl otherwise, the point that "bitcoin is the chosen" by the very code is quite sound and an intelligent way to go about it.
mircea_popescu: so tell me again what you think this is, best way to go about thisa
mircea_popescu: MolokoDeck hey. so as i was telling RagnarDanneskjol, i have no problem covering you if you can deliver the thing by what was it, end of sept ?
mircea_popescu: interesting, who knew ads have a motivational function for the publisher.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure it's all the rage at the mahjongg club, but again, to exist that retirement house in florida needs a lot of externalities in place.
mircea_popescu: i don't. i care enough about the perniciously castrated "o noes, don't argue boys, cocksuckers getr more done" to point out it doesn't belong in bitcoin, or generally among grown-ups.
mircea_popescu: once we've hung dutta, hearn and so forth and the bitcoin republic is well established, if you're still alive, you can come back and teach at the university or w/e you can do.
mircea_popescu: just, don't be amazed that nobody with actual involvement cares for your nonsense.
mircea_popescu: you're more than welcome to continue livng in your imaginary blind kitten fantasyland. you're too old to be particularly useful in any political sense anyway.
mircea_popescu: de raadt kicked all the misbehaving doods to the curb.
mircea_popescu: look at what exactly happened in openbsd once the teeth of the nsa stooges were felt.
mircea_popescu: it does not work in environments which have to self-maintain, especially not against significantly hostile pressure.
mircea_popescu: it only works in environments other people maintain for your benefit.
mircea_popescu: i had no idea it's yours, but at issue is the nonsensical "k. A cooperative effort where teams share ideas and cross-pollinate with less ego gets more done"
mircea_popescu: when in shit, much more important than finding saints, is steadily applying nooses to the worst behaved.
mircea_popescu: karpeles was too busy to obey too, there's a never ending string.
mircea_popescu: then six months down the road let's wonder why the asshole's stretched and there's no path back to innocence.
mircea_popescu: people have this idiotic attide whereby "whatever, i do what i want"
mircea_popescu: because gavin not listening to what i told him to do when i told him to do it.
mircea_popescu: Since Conformal doesn't act this way, either they have a like-minded funder who enjoys watching strife, or their funder doesn't know how badly they're behaving."