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mircea_popescu: it's always been
a major lulz for me that the same idiots howling about "don't reuse addresses -- it makes usg's pretense of defungibilizing bitcoin that less tenable" never happened to ever mention "don't deterministic wallets, it's on the level of cesar cipher homebrew".
mircea_popescu: we have some expectations about security, they do not include the self-diddle that is "deterministic signatures", ie, i'll sign with
a shitton of mathematically related privkeys.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-10 18:43 asciilifeform: ( and possibly he can also set up
a lattice and derive your key from N signatures )
mod6: edivad: if `locate` doesn't find it, perhaps
a simple find will: `find / -name "CheckIncludeFiles.cmake"`
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-10#1696685 << it's cheap in the sense making your shoes by hand is cheap. it can be fun, but that's as far as it goes. leaving aside problems of how much
a pair of aluminum, ruby or w/e dice cost (ie, GOOD dice),
a throw provides you with
a few bit's worth, FG spits out kB's worth per second. on
a per-entropy-bit cost, figuring in capital goods, salary for the thrower, etcetera, FG is about 5 de
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-08-10 18:16 shinohai: ^ That pthread issue I solved on Debian by going to /usr/share/cmake and changing
a line in CheckIncludeFiles.cmake
mod6: <+shinohai> mircea_popescu: The cmake in Debian/Ubuntu repositories used to have that pthread bug, first time I built
a trb with `V` that happened. << i don't remember ever having this issue fwiw
hanbot: mircea_popescu : i seem to remember
a period in which the .ro line went that you were "illegal", yeah.
shinohai: mircea_popescu: The cmake in Debian/Ubuntu repositories used to have that pthread bug, first time I built
a trb with `V` that happened.
mircea_popescu: this was very noticeable even when i was organising conferences for local bloggers / getting romania's new right party
a headquarters etc. "oh, this doesn't really happen, mp can't really exist" etc bla bla.
mircea_popescu: hanbot heh. i expect it's deeper than that, though. dork is romanian, and that country had
a ~50 year period of enforced equality-through-poverty the likes of which the us can only dream of. this has the side benefit of every kid expecting every other kid be you know,
a goat of ~same size. maybe this other guy has
a slightly newer car, that's the accepteable limit of it.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-10 15:31 mod6: Hi, I've updated the howto, it's not "finalized" yet. Please take
a look and let me know if this doesn't read quite right, or if I've left something out:
mircea_popescu:
a deterministic wallet can have its uses, but they typically aren't "user trying to cheat on running
a node".
edivad: and i must admit, i grown up with deterministic wallets in my heart and in just
a couple of minutes realized how
a dumb move it was
edivad: yes,
a fresh installation
mod6: and when you say 'mint' you don't mean 'linux mint' right? just
a *new/clean* ubuntu sys?
edivad: i was in
a mint system without generated locales
edivad: mod6: You need at least one UTF8 locale to build
a toolchain supporting locales
edivad: since i'm not yet capable to remember my 64 characters hex private key, there is
a way to convert it in
a seed without decreasing the security, and maybe being able to memorize it?
mircea_popescu: yes. there's isn't, nor is there going to be
a way, manner, instrument or device through which to protect the passive from the active.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-10 15:39 mod6: But wouldn't be
a bad idea to throw it on there in the case where someone, decides to use the linked vdiff script, which uses diff.
edivad: > the state-of-the-art among thinking folk is that pre-generated tx are stored on paper and fed into
a hot node when necessary
edivad: wasn't able to learn because those damn seeds have
a last checksum word (that maybe is
a perfectly ok security feature, but it cuts out manual experiments with dice)
edivad: because you know, with
a bip 44 compliant seed, you then generate your extended public key, and you can leave your dice in the drawer
edivad: and one thing that i haven't learnt yet is how to generate
a bip 44 compliant seed with dice
edivad: so, back to the question, is the fuckgoats device meant to be, for instance, if i run
a bitcoin service that constantly need to generate private keys, let's say, for example, for an hot wallet?
mod6: ok, that /is/
a bit less steps, so
a decent place to start until you get the hang of the process.
edivad: basically, i recently learned how to generate private keys with
a D16 + paper and pencil, and i thought that was
a great way to have low cost true entropy
edivad: since is
a hell lot of copy paste?
shinohai: ^ That pthread issue I solved on Debian by going to /usr/share/cmake and changing
a line in CheckIncludeFiles.cmake
☟︎ edivad: :) please tell me that the solution is right around the corner, like adding
a CC=/path/to/something into the makefile
edivad: you know,
a satisfacting terminal try & die till everything works
edivad: is going very well for
a beginner
edivad: i feel that i'm very near of
a succesful compiling of bitcoind, especially after the update of the guide
mod6: But wouldn't be
a bad idea to throw it on there in the case where someone, decides to use the linked vdiff script, which uses diff.
☟︎ shinohai: Yeah I forgot you had
a guy with some sort of linux that didn't have diff
mod6: Thanks for taking
a look shinohai
mod6: Hi, I've updated the howto, it's not "finalized" yet. Please take
a look and let me know if this doesn't read quite right, or if I've left something out:
☟︎ PeterL: ah, originally I had it written to allow user to change key sizes, that is
a holdover just in case
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 12:32 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform since we're on this btw, the way i want tmsr-rsa key generation to work is as follows :
a contains
a number of entropy bytes specified by user in tmsr-rsa.conf read whenever tmsr-rsa.conf specifies (such as urandom); b contains
a base-tmsr string specified by user. c = base-tmsr(
a).b ; p = nextprime(cut(sha512(c),257)) ; process is repeated for q = nextprime (cut(sha512(c'),258));
mircea_popescu: (and in any case, this is also
a major improvement over gpg, which realloy only uses 2^16, and worked ok in the field for many years)
mircea_popescu:
a cheap improvement would be to write down also the LZW compression ratio.
mircea_popescu: if you're asking "what is the probability of
a 4000 bit string being randomly generated so it matches an arbitrary crc32", the answer is you know, 1 in infinity.
PeterL: also, my question re crc32 yesterday, I meant to say: given
a (random) string of 250 chars, what is the proability that (random four byte string) will pass the crc32 test? which I think is just 1/256^4
mircea_popescu was
a major, and in fact for
a year or so the only proponent of encrypted wallets for btc.
mircea_popescu: i expect at least one's own history should be kept encrypted to
a key of his.
mircea_popescu: PeterL is there any security contemplated for the data, such as i dunno, encrypt the lists of peers / keys / history etc ? or simply
a case of "fuck you secure your machine" ?
PeterL: sort of
a "who is online right now" thing
PeterL: actually, I was going to put in
a ping but then didn't get around to it yet
mircea_popescu: PeterL you really don't give
a shit. whatever the message is, you truncate it to 220 or what was it and send.
mircea_popescu: wtf, ever got
a card in the mail, "this card was received at 3:55 pm" penciled in by sender ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL you have
a max nick size now ? it is
a bad idea to specify protocol semantics at transport level. let me sign my lines whichever way i want, not care about it.
PeterL: I just put in the crc32 as
a checksum
mircea_popescu: ~only known use for item comes from the 90s, have nympho take
a seat on overturned woofer.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the kenyan's legacy is one of the lulziest lulzfests in lulzhistory. so, he came to power on
a mandate to close down gitmo, which he didn't do, and to roll back bush era power grabs which he didn't do. instead of doing what he promised he decided to do other things!
mircea_popescu: not to mention, of course, that everyone in the area can also hear it, there's nothing mysterious about it. yes there are ways to carry sound over inaudible ultrasound as
a modulation, but guess what ? that takes even more energy!
a lot more, in fact.
mircea_popescu: for comparison,
a 100 gram tennisball capable of giving
a pretty girl
a nasty bruise would be going sa 100 km/h and thereby hit for .1 * (100/3.6)^2/2 ~= 40 J over its 0.001 cubic metre space, ie about 40 times more than the jet's "acoustic attack".
a 8-gram 9mm round perfectly capable of making
a whole new hole hits for 0.008 * 300 ^ 2 / 2 = 360 J over its 20 * 2*4.5*pi = 5.65 * 10^-7 volume, ie about 650`000 times the jet's
mircea_popescu: for the record :
a decibel is the log10 of the ratio between
a measured sound energy density and 10^-12 J/m^3. consequently the energy of sound at 150 decibels (such as the sonic blast of
a jet taking off at 25m, capable of rupturing eardrums) corresponds to an energy density of 10 ^ (150/10) * 10 ^ -12 = 1000 J/m^3.
mircea_popescu: "acoustic attacks", really. because why, we don't know how to calculate the energy carried by
a wave of specified frequency, or anything whatsoever about flow in fluids, and so on.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-24 17:53 mircea_popescu: "Oakley is among
a growing number of educators who view intermediate algebra as an obstacle to students obtaining their credentials — particularly in fields that require no higher level math skills." << teh confusion of ideas ffs.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-09 22:47 mircea_popescu: in other lulz : obviously there's
a "foundation" and
a "code of conduct" (the usgistani nonsense copy/pasted) and
a freenode chan, why not. ~600 accounts logged in (specifically :
http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/yDU6G/?raw=true ) , ZERO anyone has to say at all whatsoever. most are related to matrix.org, which is
a pile of nonsensical lulz which you're more than welcome to try and make sense of by yourself. in any case, it's an "
mircea_popescu: oh and speaking of
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-09#1696188 and faux ngos : the "organized crime and corruption reporting project", owned by
a maryland state dept offshoot, is this "github for retarded euro-orks willing to journalism for free in furtherance of us "anti-corruption" anti-sovereignity agenda'.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 00:02 phf: by the time i started figuring out the socioeconomic part of the question it was
a year too late (they started tightening the screws some time before putin came to power, which was not so much the beginning but the announcement of the done deal. i remember '99 the situation of
a lot of people changed drastically.)
mircea_popescu: (nemtsov, recently assassinated, was, of course, the guy putin beat for to
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1687959, yeltsin's chosen successor. ah what
a great party it'd have been, for teh pantsuits. clinton forever, herdemocracy herp derp... then gore lost to bush, nemtsov lost to putin, nyc lost to gravity, sads sads sads.)
☝︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: i expect "scientifically proven"
a la "climate change" no less ?
mircea_popescu: because otherwise what the hell, it's not
a lease it's
a girlfriendizing contract.
mircea_popescu: "i'll just dump these remains in your back yard, throw them out whenever you're sick of them" is not what
a lease says.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mno. church can ordain whatever the fuck it pleases ; but
a lease is not at-will wtf is the point even.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, some dude drove over
a half dozen french whatever they are, soldiers-polizei.
mircea_popescu thinks "well... what if you had
a group instead, and you could... o fuck me, discrete logarithms. guess what, another basis for cryptosystems".
mircea_popescu: no wtf there. the wtf is more in the line of "check him out, he wants to use
a computer without the if key"
mircea_popescu: no, see. if you could have
a not-always-worstcase fixtime algo you would have in fact found pill.
mircea_popescu: i am now very suspicious you can't ever have
a good solution, in the sense that if you find it... you'll have found
a fine reason not to need it anymore.
mircea_popescu: heh. the graph of
a ^ x mod b looks eheheheheeexactly like the riemann functions / unit covering shenanigans.
mircea_popescu: i am telling you, his thing is ripe for rewritting in
a more apt notation. he is misrepresenting it because thinking in therms of fucking logic gates
mircea_popescu: but you don't have to use
a table, you should be able to make it work in
a matrixc
mircea_popescu: no but you write it as
a full matrix, you get the undo for free
mircea_popescu: but you serialize and do
a whole word's worth of bit diddle as
a xor
mircea_popescu: and
a possible candidate for "alt cryptosystem" at that.
mircea_popescu: tell me 13% of 50 years somehow comes out to less than
a week ?