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mircea_popescu: a few years after its introduction
to "forever fix"
the nonsensical problem of "turning a stateless protocol into a stateful connection"
ascii_field: which is kinda why i never saw
this particular attribute of an asymmetric cipher especially interesting
ascii_field: is it just me or is
the very possibility of acca dependent on retardation in implementation ??
mircea_popescu: eventually managing
to obtain
the key
through
the interplay of your selection and weakness of
the cryptosystem)
mircea_popescu: (acca/cca2 = adaptive chosen cyphertext. it's an attack where you sort
the cyphertexts in a
tree,
then send
them
to be decrypted
mircea_popescu: it however was not only
the first but
to date
the only afaik scheme
that's secure against acca. provedly so.
ascii_field: could've sworn we worked out some of
the basics here
mircea_popescu: let us indulge
then. cramer-shoup is an asym key system, just like rsa or ecc.
mircea_popescu: "Although
the potential development of quantum computers
threatens
the security of many common forms of cryptography such as RSA, "
ascii_field: i'd even go as far as
to suggest
the use of lamport signatures
mircea_popescu: (leaving
to reader's discretion which of
the
two
this exemplifies)
ascii_field: but for all i know, shoup is
the only working scheme and
the correct maximum of
tx carrying capacity ~is~ 1% of what it is now
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: l0l,
think
the
thing is a hog now ?
try with shoup
mircea_popescu: imagine, having
to either a) ignore
the matter or b) make a point
that
the evil people are not-using its beloved shitscheme!
mircea_popescu: this will actually almost certainly be in
there. gotta hurt
the enemy not just in
the matter at hand but across
the field.
mircea_popescu: for some reason i read
that as ram parity check something-or-the-other.
ascii_field: (crypto without authentication and authentication without wot is of
the heathens)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
the 'encrypted connection' item necessarily reduces
to gossipd
ascii_field: i had
the motherfucking 'play with barbarians' patch
mircea_popescu: then
threw a fit when random barbarian landed and
took your wonders ?
mircea_popescu: were you
the derpy sort of player
that never built a phalanx ?
ascii_field: if anyone asked me, i would answer 'a btc de-usgized from
the minerals up', which means not only silicon but a non-ecc cryptosig, and a number of other refinements
mircea_popescu: but anyway, a btc with ringbuffer mempool, with
the aforediscussed scoring mechanism for discounting
txn, with encrypted connections and using any port is probablty good enough. hard
to
tell.
mircea_popescu: well i don't even know yet. vaguely defined, "a btc
that won't give my computer hives"
mircea_popescu: socialists, of which
the usg is just an implementation, lose
through
there existing alternative. all
that's needed really.
mircea_popescu: notrly, even
to whale. gotta appreciate : if
the niche exists,
the plankton also exists.
mircea_popescu: so far all
the efforts went more in
the line of
the earlierly discussed
tor : nobody uses it but we keep pretending yet
the propaganda machine's in place,
ascii_field: took'em a good while
to glue all
the envirowhiner sects into one juggernaut, aha
ascii_field: or we are speaking of some great wunderwaffen with actual planning &
thought behind it
mircea_popescu: anyway, my data seems
to suggest
that
the enemy will be pushing a fork before
the decade's out. whether we at
that
time have a counterfork ready or not is pretty much what decides
the fate of
the free world.
☟︎☟︎ ascii_field: one of
the gnarliest of
the req'd courses, even
assbot: Logged on 28-11-2015 16:30:41; mircea_popescu: of course, back illo
tempore any class on crypto necessarily begun with a "data structures" prior years earlier.
ascii_field: this may be edging into rms&gcc
territory, but
the inscrutability of
the
turd did its part in keeping
the original net from forking
to death - by ensuring
that all of
the forks were retarded 'swap
the genesis' rather
than any serious improvement of
the compatibility-breaking kind
mircea_popescu: of course, back illo
tempore any class on crypto necessarily begun with a "data structures" prior years earlier.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "whenever you do a murder, you make 25 mistakes ; if you remember five of
them afterwards you're lucky."
mircea_popescu: seems easier
to believe a lone wolf is dumb
than clever.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: in what way is
the rotten mess 'easier
to believe' ?
mircea_popescu: of course,
there's a 2nd layer of problems : had
the code been neatly written by someone obviously clueful as
to
the fundamentals of computer programming, would we have believed.
ascii_field: didntcha always wonder why
tx deletion had
to be O(N) ?!
mircea_popescu: notably,
this would do nothing
to break
the protocol. how nodes handle
their mempool is really
their own problem.
ascii_field wanted
to suggest it originally but mircea_popescu was on a long 'this is your motherfucking grandfather's pistol and hands off' kick
mircea_popescu: i've been mulling it for months now, but
there's no way out.
ascii_field: this would handily cure
the ailment described last night.
mircea_popescu: i see why
they wanted
to pretend, but it is fundamentally contrary
to design goals.
mircea_popescu: "no
transaction may be included in mempool if it has ANY predecessors
that have not been already mined"
mircea_popescu: and i am almost persuaded by now
that
the notion of chained
tx must be done away with.
ascii_field: and, as mircea_popescu mentioned earlier,
there is also
the problem of fragging, which none of
this even begins
to deal with, nor is anything like a clean/simple solution
to it known
to me
ascii_field: well
there are a few gotchas,
think about it - potentially a
tx
that is in
the receive queue could
turn bastard when pool is flushed
ascii_field: (this was
the purpose of my - failed - experiment)
assbot: Logged on 28-11-2015 11:37:16; jurov: soo. i have managed
to get MEM_LIVE
to decrease by replacing mapNextTx.clear() by mapNextTx.erase(mapNextTx.begin(),mapNextTx.end())
mircea_popescu: what's it been, ONLY
two full years ? still carrying on with it ?
mircea_popescu: "That contrary
to planted disinformation of which
the Guardian article is a fine example,
the NSA has complete and unlimited, instantaneous access
to any and all information passed
through
the
TOR network in its entirety, as a matter of course and by design."
mircea_popescu: funny how "everyone" pretends
tor is actually somehow a
thing.
shinohai: After reading
the comments, it appears
to be collective insanity. I don't run core anymore anyway but bolting on
tor kills it.
mircea_popescu: he's been an outlier
throughout. not more or less insane
than
the average for
that place.
shinohai: reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3uigpd/peter_todd_remember_how_we_discussed_adding/ <<< Is Peter
Todd insane ?
mircea_popescu: and unrelatedly, omfg busta rhymes is
the best black people act since aretha franklin.
mircea_popescu: jurov does
this mechanism do anything about fragmentation ? notrly huh
jurov: soo. i have managed
to get MEM_LIVE
to decrease by replacing mapNextTx.clear() by mapNextTx.erase(mapNextTx.begin(),mapNextTx.end())
☟︎ benkay naive
to downside implications of leaving freenode a smoking crater
benkay: what needs doing - ircds on boxen and
that's it?
mircea_popescu: but anyway,
the intercepts were from "a dangerous ring of underage prostitute
traffickers". who
turned out
to be indescribably dude-next-door sorta warm, cozy, familiar situation.
mircea_popescu: heh,
two
things about sorana,
the comedy : a) i
think i wrote about a dozen words.
the rest is simply
taken from "leaked" romanian-nsa phone intercepts (strictly illegal
to have
those, and even illegal-er
to leak
them seeing how
the
trial was ongoing. but...)
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BingoBoingo prolly going
to write a still more explicit qntra style guide
this weekend
BingoBoingo: Well, most american food is laced with
the sugahs. Even
the meats and breads. A lot of it is
the sugahs
that don't respond
to insulin (fructose). Add vidya games. Add monsanto.
mircea_popescu: lmao
they are going
to dump all
that
tor bs on
top of all
that openssl bs on
top of all
that boost bs on
top of all
that qt bs into
the client ?
mircea_popescu: anwyay, commenters bring a good fucking point. when i was in my
teens i went
through about 25-30k calories a week, each week.
BingoBoingo: Brodinism just got a lot less appealing >> "Brothers I've been
triggered! My lat has become so large with Brodin's blessings I find it difficult
to reach around it and clean up after I've given yesterday's sustenance
to
the porcelain god. I fear if
this continues I may have
to use a rag on a stick!"
assbot: BitttBurger comments on Peter
Todd: "Remember how we discussed adding
Tor-by-default
to Bitcoin Core? It'll be in v0.12!" ... (
http://bit.ly/1IfsfUw )