asciilifeform: ideally it'd be a mircea_popescu spec.
asciilifeform: i regularly return , on chalkboard, to the subj, but on last visit to it realized that i'm something like a nonviolinist designing violin
asciilifeform: that was the closest item i found yea
asciilifeform: all i found were threads re various sad heathen wallets
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: almost entirely unrelatedly, didja ever have a 'iron wallets spec' article ? asciilifeform had a notion that there was one, and dug in the l0gz, found ~0
asciilifeform: 'note: this pistol is in firing-backwards mode'
asciilifeform: ( iirc! asciilifeform prolly oughta reread his orig coad, actually been wrong before re the mechanisms ! )
asciilifeform: fwiw i had it mark all patches with 'WILD' alarm string when operating gpgless
asciilifeform: arguably this kind of thing doesn't belong at all in a production vtron, it is uncomfortably close to the proverbial 'null cipher flag'(tm)(r)
asciilifeform: ( why? because asciilifeform doesn't like to crypto in any form, even as toy, on boxes without rng, and some of his trb dev machines at the time had none )
asciilifeform: it was possible even in orig v, asciilifeform's orig v99 even had a sadmode flag to trigger it
asciilifeform: this was variously reviewed in mircea_popescu's essays, summing up to 'modern folx can barely be arsed to do anyffing at all, not even rape & pillage, it aint easy to make'em get out of bed'
asciilifeform: seems like what they need is a martian invasion, or sumthing.
asciilifeform: the 'mongols' also 'aint waht they used to be', can you picture tamerlane sitting in 'refugee camp' and filing lawsuits re the welfarola cheques bouncing ?
asciilifeform: the picture, at least from my perch, doesn't match 'mongols come and the folx on the ramparts pretend not to notice and play cards' model; eurorasts organized, deliberately bring in the boats. what's the logic there ?
asciilifeform: sorta late to 'worry', current v of euro civ was spiffy and chromed, then wrapped around a telephone pole and repaired with junkyard parts no less than twice, stayed on the road for astonishingly long time, before bumpers , floor, coming off
asciilifeform: i dunno who, tho, other than the socialist lolcows, will lament the demolition of the brutalist crapola. but there is no fly/cutlet separation, louvre etc will go down with the rest
asciilifeform: btw recall how der fuhrer himself promised to tear down berlin and reformat
asciilifeform: q is why odin did not send'em 20yrs ago
asciilifeform: at one time asciilifeform had a poster of hiv virus electromicrogram. it is very interesting-looking item. but i imagine to the folx playing host, it is interesting in very diff way..
asciilifeform: btw manual curation of unspent coinz will be much moar practical once the thing stops nonsensically crapping out random addrs to 'change' to
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: at one time i tried to implement more or less same item you're making, and did the shiva thing, and in the end thought that whoever it was ( mircea_popescu ? ) who suggested that trb should simply eat ( and prompt to sign ) raw tx, generated externally via scripts, was right
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: actually pretty boring thus far. seems to be exactly what asciilifeform expected.
asciilifeform: the contents of the maskrom per se may or may not be valuable (it may contain an unofficial backdoor of whatever sort, or may not)
asciilifeform: #1 and #2 correspond to e.g. microshit's subkeys, the kind issued to driver vendors
asciilifeform: #0 is analogous to e.g. crapple's master key for ipnoje.
asciilifeform: the runner-up prizes are #1 and #2, leakage of ~these~ would allow liberation of the existing cr50's, but the boojum of 'box in airport luggage can get reflashed via usb by enemy troops' would remain just as nao
asciilifeform: the leakage of its priv would be ~= thermonuke demolition of the whole edifice, they'd have to bake new mask roms
asciilifeform: if it happens that the crown j00lz end up within reach of mircea_popescu's black bags, the top prize, ftr, is key #0
asciilifeform: since then it was tightened down and send to become the maskrom.
asciilifeform: if it wasn't clear from the turdolade earlier, i'll note for the record : their published 'loader' is not ~entirely~ unrelated to the live one; it is, i suspect, prototype, from the fpga days
asciilifeform: ( whoknows, could, in asteroid's chance, have shared factor with a live one )
asciilifeform: i'ma stuff these too into phuctor for good measure.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: initially i thought it was possibly one of their 'dev keys', where the privs were at various points checked into their shithub ( since 'deleted' but unsurprisingly still visible with a small spot of work )
