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mircea_popescu: hitler had reports re
the fucking wtc bombings on his own desk.
mircea_popescu: it is ACTUALLY preferable for
teh republic
that whether rsa is or is not np-complete is not known.
mircea_popescu: if anyone had
the proof, i'd ask
them
to not publish it, for
that matter.
mircea_popescu: the field of unknown unknowns always favours
the people against
the state.
mircea_popescu: the holy grail is
this situation where nothing's demonstrated at all.
mircea_popescu: look, im not going
to give back
the major advantage of asym crypto keys just because nsa sponsored implementation and useful rms-ian idiots made a mess of
things.
phf: (that's
the last point in asciilifeform's list)
phf: conversation really an excuse for asciilifeform
to build a subversive analogue circuit
phf: should start mailing each other cloned harddrives with random bits on
them
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do not ask me "how".
this question is pointedly forbidden in
this context.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform either you make me an infinitely rigid girder or i don;'t want anything
to do with you.
mircea_popescu: no dude, spare me. either
this problem is solved or woirked on.
mircea_popescu: it helps in precisely
the same way as multiple surgical interventions.
punkman: "# Use a real encryption algorithm
to protect
the secret keyring, rather
than CAST5." << relevant
to certain folks
that didn't mind posting
their encrypted keyrings
to keybase.io
punkman: plenty of success with
that "Scallion was used
to find collisions for every 32bit key id in
the Web of
Trust's strong set demonstrating how insecure 32bit key ids are."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is
thgat
the most likely
to be quoted snippet ?
mircea_popescu: ;;google "N-ai fost acolo s-auzi
tot ce-am auzit. N-ai fost acolo sa vezi
tot ce am vazut. N-ai fost acolo sa vezi
tot ce am facut. N-ai fost acolo sa vezi prin
tot ce am
trecut."
mircea_popescu: and why is it
that all
the phuctor bad sigs we see are
two octet mirrors.
phf: if
the first
two octets don't match you don't have
to go
through
the rest of
the signature verification process, since at
that point you already know
that
the signature is invalid
mircea_popescu: the intent is
to rape and pillage, for all orcs, by virtue of being orcs.
mircea_popescu: i do not wish
to eat in
the restaurant where
they piss in
the beer, irrespective of any other consideration.
phf: mircea_popescu: i ~assume~
the intent is
to speed up failure
phf: asciilifeform: maybe hash size is variable where's
they wanted
to go with fixed size headers. so no matter size of hash you only store first
two octets
mircea_popescu: anyway,
there's no question left
that a usable extant pgp implementaton exists.
this should be redone.
punkman: you'll have
to spell it out for me
mircea_popescu: but still,
the situation is not equivalent
to "singatures are
trivially defeated in
the field"
mats: asciilifeform: I didn't know
that. cool.
mats: If subroutines were used,
they were implemented by writing
the return address
to
their end
then jumping.
mats: Fun fact:
the first Minuteman missiles ran off a hard disk as
the only available memory. Reads/writes/jumps had
to be scheduled
to avoid pipeline stalling for a full rotation.