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mircea_popescu: "It's all very simple, you sit in the embassy and dissideate"
mircea_popescu: what else are these halfwits born-ready for ? besides "everything" i mean./
mircea_popescu: aaanyway. everyone's a mathematician and everyone's a warrior nao ?
mircea_popescu: i totally should translate that "chinese dissident" article sometime.
mircea_popescu: is these for people who actually give a shit re pantsuit or what.
mircea_popescu: anyway. other than the above "can constantify mpfhf ?" question, also open is the matter of alternative padding. currently all we have is oaep.
mircea_popescu: constant-time MPFHF is now an open question for teh interested.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so unless you're willing to do ALL the alternatives every time, you won't have "true" constantttime.
mircea_popescu: so, message M takes 105 bits and 114 steps. message M' takes 107 bits and 119 steps. message M'' takes 103 bits and 115 steps.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform are you proposing to simply "take" bound time every time ? cuz i dunno this can bew done irl.
mircea_popescu: this is so necessarily, as a converse statement of its strength.
mircea_popescu: the ONE way to constant-mpfhf is to calculate ALL the tree of possibilities, 2^message length items EVERY TIME
mircea_popescu: yes, but you'd have to have writer-with-padder on your isolated machine, move pre-padded shit to the fire machine.
mircea_popescu: it dun have to be mpfhf so much as i'd like a GOOD alt.
mircea_popescu: tbh, i'd very much like to have an alternative there. i put in and took out the thing twice before announcing, this is the third.
mircea_popescu: to be sure, i don't think you're making a weak case. im leaving the matter open, at least for a while, can you live with that ?
mircea_popescu: i don't carry around all my rifles all the time, to take a leak, etc. i can't.
mircea_popescu: consider : we often use [very!] short forms of ideas in here, and rely on the op to correctly resolve.
mircea_popescu: i mean, i call out "hey, slut" and a dozen eyes rise. these are collisions, and what of it.
mircea_popescu: this is not altogether a weak argument. consider the converse though : suppose i wish to refer to my key by using fewer chars than 512 ?
mircea_popescu: um. you either standardize them to null, standardize them to something sane, or allow the empire to standardize them to something idiotic. this is your trilemma.
mircea_popescu: first question, of course, being whether there's value in changing the spec for key primes from "2048" to ">2046" bits.
mircea_popescu: there's been too much waffling re keys on my part (which means -- any). i feel bad about it an' i perceive gotta write up
mircea_popescu: anyway, ima try and pen a pre-rfc on tmsr-rsa, unless anyone has objections ?
mircea_popescu: maybe try strapping that thing off sometime. im startying to suspect "gas canister" doesn't say what you thought it said!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you said impossible by any other method.
mircea_popescu: this is fucking important. managing to go through 500 pages of highly contrived nonsense without flyiong out of my hand, not for everybody.
mircea_popescu: but i would have thrown frege against a wall had he "impossible" something i oculd trivially disprove.