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mircea_popescu: (courtesy BingoBoingo who by now is a
total expert at bothering mayogenders)
ascii_butugychag: also gotta love
the 'free, open workstation' where
the sole component supplier is ibm
BingoBoingo: Of course
the
thing is at
the "pre-order" stage so who knows if it ever appears
BingoBoingo: "Talos™ is
the world's first ATX workstation-class mainboard for
the new, open-source friendly IBM POWER8 processor and architecture."
ascii_butugychag: i'm a bit surprised
that nobody whined re:
the most obvious boojum of mircea_popescu's contest - how will it be judged.
danielpbarron: i imagine
the memo
to
the astro-turfers went something like "go post comments on
this slashdot
thread, and use
the keyword 'arrogant
twat'"
danielpbarron: from
the long-winded "i want
to sorta look like i agree with
this guy" post >>
There definitely is a potential for safer currencies
than bitcoin
BingoBoingo: ascii_butugychag: Note all
the derps supposing
the block cipher is somehow supposed
to be used as a proof of work
BingoBoingo: ascii_butugychag: Not how many of
them appear so rapidly
danielpbarron: comments are a riot;
these guys just can't stand
that someone out
there knows what he wants and isn't afraid
to put it out
there
BingoBoingo: "from
the now-how-much-would-you-pay? dept"
BingoBoingo: ascii_butugychag: Mebbe. I got
to read into it.
ascii_butugychag: 'A post
to a
technical forum discovered
that
the non-prime parameter was introduced more
than a year ago. A note in
the commit indicates
that Socat was not working in FIPS mode because it requires a 1024 Diffie-Hellman prime, and added
that a developer named Zhiang Wang provided a patch with
the new prime.
The poster revealed
that Wang works at Oracle and contributes
to Socat.'
☟︎ ascii_butugychag: '“I cannot for sure rule out
the possibility of a backdoor,” said Gerhard Rieger, a Socat maintainer. “But personally I do not believe
that
the contributor has a backdoor because he uses an email address at a well known and reputated company, and if someone wants
to install such a backdoor he would not use a parameter
that can easily be proven as non prime.”'
☟︎ ascii_butugychag: punkman:
the one with bernstein's proposed enhancements - possibly.
punkman: ascii_butugychag: i even like
the (beefed up) mceliece << which one?
mircea_popescu: "Thus, by simply keeping a local list of cipher
texts
that you prevent from being decrypted straightforward (i.e.
those you generated), you can---at least in
theory---add some security." <<
this part.
ascii_butugychag: it means
that decryption of arbitary input doesn't leak key bits
mircea_popescu: Thus, by simply keeping a local list of cipher
texts
that you prevent from being decrypted straightforward (i.e.
those you generated), you can---at least in
theory---add some security." <<< wtf is
this!
mircea_popescu: "One amazing feature of
this system is
that it comes with a proof of security against adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks. I.e if your hardware device (say your workstation) can be used by an adversary for a limited
time (e.g. while you are at lunch)
to decrypt chosen ciphertexts without actually 'stealing'
the secret key, it does not help him
too much
to decrypt any ciphertexts except
the ones he decrypted explicitly.
mircea_popescu: and also fwiw : a)
the discrete log problem is of course related
to
the euler inequality, and generally shoup is properly speaking a narrow case of my proposed ep?
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag re
the comment etc : i am definitely awarding for a degenerate shoup, if
that's what we agree on using.
mircea_popescu: Encryption is 'probabilistic' - i.e. if
the same
text is encrypted
twice,
the ciphertext usually will be different.
They also will be longer (in
the size of bits) by a factor of four, in order
to guarantee decryption
to
the original message."
mircea_popescu: "The algorithm can be applied on 'arbitrary' key sizes, i.e. every user can decide which bit-length k his key should have (less
then 1000 is usually considered insecure).
ascii_butugychag: the 'holy grail' appeal of unbreakable usgtronics everywhere is irresistible
to hitler.
punkman: ascii_butugychag: browsing
through
the 2015 iacr archive, seems like almost every
third paper is about homo crypto
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2014 03:56:24; asciilifeform: i venture
to say
that
the actual goal of general-purpose (or whatever approximation is possible) homomorphic crypto is quite different.
mircea_popescu: by
the choice of year, acomprehensible
theory of
the universe it'd seem.
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2016 18:34:10; ascii_butugychag: pretty much everything i give half a shit about was in better shape in 1900
than
today.
BingoBoingo: Not a single link
to anyone other
than
Thermos on
the subject
BingoBoingo: Because for some reason articles already have comments when
they hit RSS????
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's a comment on derpiticle. A comment
that was carried onto
the RSS version of
the derpiticle.
mircea_popescu: so if you make MORE space for people
to
take a shit in,
there's going
to somehow be fewer sd chips burned ?
BingoBoingo: Because mempool size is necessarily a problem for rPI and bigger blocks would be a solution in
their bizzaro land. Need more Orphanage nike
BingoBoingo: From
the mines: "You obviously don’t understand
that Bitcoin has already reached
thoroughput capacity, and further procrastination will result in
the amount of orphaned blocks increasing; costing miners, and frying micro-SDchips with outrageous mempool sizes rewriting constantly. Just one look at
the mempool is reason enough
to worry. Rasberri Pi’s weren’t designed
to be abused in
this way… and nearly every node and ASIC u
BingoBoingo: mod6: Well you gotta understand hobofucking as well as hobocucking are serious
trainstation risks
mod6: wouldn't wanna make me stab myself in
the face any less.
mod6: this morning I had
to nearly step over
two hobo's fucking in
the
trainstation.
ascii_butugychag: ^ from my multi-year attempt
to find out something definitive re:
the strength of mceliece
ascii_butugychag: pretty much everything i give half a shit about was in better shape in 1900
than
today.
☟︎ ascii_butugychag: to say 'in
the past' is as sane now as it would be after a nuclear war.
mircea_popescu: this leaves 1 and 4,
the choice among which is indifferent.
mircea_popescu: in general,
the options are exactly 4 : 1)
to say
that
the better
times are in
the past ; 2)
to say
that
the better
times are right now ; 3)
to say
that
the better
times are in
the future ; 4)
to say
that
there are no better
times.
PeterL: btw, is it better
to nitpick articles here or in
their comment sections?
PeterL: BingoBoingo from Mizzu article "unrest lead
to
the departure of several high level administrative departures from
the University" << got an extra departure in
there
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2016 03:26:49; assbot: Logged on 04-02-2016 23:40:10; kakobrekla: and where do
they want
to live, in
the past where all
the cool beans are?
ascii_butugychag: '...y, I have never been able
to understand why any mathematician would discourage
the
ascii_butugychag: with more frequency
then we might like. But
this surely does not eradicate
the importance of
ascii_butugychag: Problems” of
the Clay Mathematics Institute) is settled. Do mistakes happen? Occasionally, and
ascii_butugychag: this has also been shown
to be inherent until
the P vs. NP question (one of
the seven “Millennium
ascii_butugychag: invalidate
the proof. (A proof of security is always given with respect
to a particular definition of
ascii_butugychag: a scheme
that has been proven secure still succumb
to a real-world attack? Yes, but
this does not
ascii_butugychag: (which I will be happy
to do upon request of
the editors), let me assure
those readers
that
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu:
the folks in question are
the 'unique brand of stupid' because
this is ~MANDATORY~ if you want
to make a living doing what
they do.
mircea_popescu: nd of analysis is
the only acceptable methodology e.g. for cryptography, and
that its results should be blindly adhered
to as
truth about
the world especially when
they contradict plain common sense, as K&M claim
they do (not saying whether
the latter is
true or not, just
that it doesn't address
this)."
mircea_popescu: anyway,
to not unwarrantedly attack a whole nominal group :
there are sane people
too. an example "Well, he also references Bacon's Novum Organum as justification for "rigorous analysis" in cryptography, by which he apparently means
theorem/proof analysis.
To my knowledge,
that work essentially describes how
to conduct empirical scientific experiments
to gain knowledge, and does not support
the claim
that
the former ki
mircea_popescu: this is like
throwing away
the summaries in confusion and reading
the original
tardstalk
text plain just
to see. i have
the exact same feeling -
these people are uniquely stupid. what
the fuck did
teh education do for
them again ?!
mircea_popescu: ancient history
to it,
too. "is
this blessing good or not ?" "it's great. except if in
the future
things happen, in which case it WILL RETROACTIVELY HAVE NOT ACTUALLY BEEN A BLESSING!"
mircea_popescu: it's i suspect
the principal pipe
through which
the sheep
that aren't exactly stupid
transfer material from future back into
the past.
mircea_popescu: and
this analytical device works quite well. is
trump an ACTUALLY incumbent ?