asciilifeform: granted, early cannon was nearly as lethal to the artillerist as to enemy. but that was state of art in 1500. turret pistol seems like a step back..
asciilifeform: i can see mircea_popescu's arg for gluing it in. but why 512b.
asciilifeform: i expect that errybody currently tuned in, will use keccak.☟︎
asciilifeform: ability to use variant hashers in v would seem to go with the nonspecificity-of-diddling philosophy tho.
asciilifeform: and yes, i like it largely because not crowned by hitler. ( tho admittedly there is no way to prove the negative of hitlerian authorship for it, the author set of it iirc intersects with that of aes , which ~was~ crowned )
asciilifeform: ( admitting , however, asciilifeform does not know of any proof that the longer keccaks are actually stronger )
asciilifeform: keccak is able to eat ~and shit~ arbitrary bitness.
asciilifeform: all known hashers eat arbitrary length, just multiples of n
asciilifeform: aside from old-stuff-we're-doomed-to-regrind-for-new-vtron-anyway, largely in the keccak win of being able to emit arbitrarily long hash
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu even wrote 'standardization is great, but where unnecessary, harmful'
asciilifeform: would say, e.g., +++ b/fg.ucf keccak512 2e1120e28077b4fc31bc2de704cba9591daad2e4193737cf911a0dd49d4731843cc9fb9c3595f65c9e1bdf6a13d2d41011552de688cff10a7074ace6827cc37f
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no state machine, just expectation that machine has e.g. 'keccac1024' util on it
asciilifeform: ugh did he manage to dig up a pre-timestampremoval vdiff.sh ?!
asciilifeform: in other noose, 1807113 keyz swallowed, containing 1646811 new mods.
asciilifeform: as for keccak, util oughta take a bitness arg ( sorta half the win from keccak, is that you can demand e.g. kilobit hash output )
asciilifeform: i still dun fully grasp why hasher gotta be hardwired into the vtron. what's the point of even having a shell if not for pluggable items like hash.
asciilifeform: dunno re 'all', but so far seems that most -- did
asciilifeform: ( keys with dupe mods get processed correctly, they are addressable as distinct keys but mods are references to a mods table, and dupes get marked as dupes. bernsteintron works on deduped mods table. )
asciilifeform: bernsteinization dunwork if you dun dedupe.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: somewhat surprisingly, eater is 1059370 keyz into the spyked parcel, and result is 1059878 new mods ( i.e. avg of >1 per ! )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fwiw it wouldn't astonish me if 0 new keys.
asciilifeform: well yes , that's what typical usa 'software co' ~does~
asciilifeform: ( and/or folx getting their shit together and moving their repo to actual box in-house )
asciilifeform: luser count drop could easily be from simple unemployment
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: btw you may find it interesting that some unknown % of shithub accts are commercial worker bees, thing is commonly used by small software corps in usa for storage
asciilifeform: incidentally nao that shithub has been officially absorbed into microshit, i expect there will be a 'digg -> reddit'-style exodus of deps to some new 'designated opposition' snakepit. but dunno where this is, yet.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 6.9 -> 4.6 was in re rsa strictly, unless i misread
asciilifeform: spyked: thx for the fodder, i've started up the converter.
asciilifeform: 'As per the figures above, there were only about 4.6 million RSA keys in existence on GitHub on the 1st of July 2018, as opposed to the approximately 6.9 million found by JuroV' << i suspect that the culprit is the massed usg thrust towards 'use ecdsa nao!'
asciilifeform: seems to mean simply that key (not necessarily entire luser's acct) was deleted at some point.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: whole thrust behind asciilifeform's initial colonization of musl was to be rid of dlopen() etc
asciilifeform: trinque: currently massaging ch11 of ffa series, right after this will test-fire your opus
asciilifeform: ave1: this is The Right Thing, let glibc go to the bottom of the sea where it belongs.
asciilifeform: the given demo gives you uart and that's it. ( hypothetically could internet over uart, ye olde 'slip/ppp' )
asciilifeform: would need nic also ( see the old nic thread )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to bake a e.g. iron trbi, or the like, you'd need to init and talk to the sata card, this is not given in the example ( but not particularly difficult )
