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mircea_popescu: anyway, the system is pretty well designed for expansion. in the future i might generate a special key just for db signing, and put it somewhere safe
mircea_popescu: a week later there's fifty billion fake stats floating around
mircea_popescu: think about it, the exchange key is released to decrypt db
mircea_popescu: making the entire thing much more resilient to attacks.
mircea_popescu: the advantage of this scheme is that backups can now be obtained from both known *and unknown* sources
mircea_popescu: who covertly follow all my communications, know of all my back-ups and one day suddenly strike!
mircea_popescu: suppose for a moment there's an uberconspiracy of like, the reptillians
mircea_popescu: i'm not releasing my key either way, why'd i release it ?
mircea_popescu: it doesn't look like so much but a lot of work went into this thing actually.
mircea_popescu: smickles and yes, that too, allows you to see fast which sections changed if you store prev hashes
mircea_popescu: smickles and also, seen the mpex db dump ? good insurance for customers, if they put a big order in also save a db dump :p
mircea_popescu: basically the point of the md5 is precisely to allow *some* armor hardening of the thing while still allowing it to be read like plain text
mircea_popescu: but reasonably if i wanted to do parallel processing i'd still just rent out a rack of boxes and use that.
mircea_popescu: im sure it's better than a radeon vidcard in that sense
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining i don't imagine parallella chips do so well at parallelizing "a variety" of tasks anyway
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 you know these ipos tend to be a lot of hype.
mircea_popescu: desktops are for people who use like... smartphones and shit like that.
mircea_popescu: and by date and by size and by their mother's pedigree
mircea_popescu: <BTC-Mining> hmm, Windows 8 looks like THE shit. << that means great.
mircea_popescu: your conspiratorial attempts to fool me into believing your conspiracies fail.
mircea_popescu: did pirate release the list of depositor names and emails yet ?
mircea_popescu: actually... it might be time someone makes a pympex port for the latest python
mircea_popescu: actually there was a nightmare situation with one customer who somehow changed his default key in between having it registered and sending the first payment
mircea_popescu: i'd much prefer something a page or two long but it doesn't seem possible
mircea_popescu: more like an "in general". that thing's monstrously large by now
mircea_popescu: (also, you can link to specific sections in the faq by c/p ing the question number link)
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, if you use a properly set up anon key nobody can ever figure it out, even if they owned all the servers in the world.
mircea_popescu: not unless either some servers are seriously broken into or someone cracks gpg
mircea_popescu: heh that's just a theory. in practice, they're very involved.
mircea_popescu: provided, of course, the fucking chinese stop hussling people at macau.
mircea_popescu: it's inconvenient and really mostly a relic from the pre ww2 days