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mircea_popescu: this is the important point of having defeated the usg flailing attempts to prevent actual fee market from developping : it will WORK.
mircea_popescu: and of course as women are the social scar tissue, this is going to end up with yet another "oh, it's THEIR fault!!!", like every historical case to date.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: then again, sept 11 marked the end of vhs-america. the remainder usg-sadness is not even at the level of hruschev's "reformed cccp"
mircea_popescu: anyway, to the general point : satellite comms are a very limited thing, and will definitely go the same way the old roman dinner (ie, fuckfest) went once the medievals discovered syphilis.
mircea_popescu: the cost per ton of this (materials, excluding labour and knowledge) is under 100 bux.
mircea_popescu: 2 stage, a 1-200kg booster thing to get it in gross range and a 2-3kg thing to power the last 100 grame spiked ball to the actual satellite
mircea_popescu: i literally mean, dig up an old bit of grapeshot from age of sail, send it up.,
mircea_popescu: but yes, glonass slightly better than usg sats because of orbit style.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no. different work to PUT satellite in orbit, and to send it an old bit of spanish grapeshot
mircea_popescu: and it doesn't have to be fast or anything. nor does it need payload.
mircea_popescu: tru fact : you can take down satellites TODAY. as an individual effort.
mircea_popescu: now it's more expensive than mining. cuz gotta airforce one it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform who the fuck would depend on a satellite. for one thing they keep falling.
mircea_popescu: uh. really ? 1 way from owned source ? and how do you check for splits ?
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, if you have satellite you already have internet ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL that lemma refers to domain borders. there's no border re hardware.
mircea_popescu: (at least we get this much from the sadness : if anyone asks "why 4096" user can link here._
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's nothing wrong with HAVING it. and people can use it. BUT for rsa we should use the even one.
mircea_popescu: or at least show some logic whatsoever. "it's sometimes better", anything.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it means there's no space for choosing, as there's an obvious right thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111000101 ? or rather something more like 1100111110111010111111000100100010011101001010001000100100011001 ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. i am sad, but defeated. the dream has to die, it's what it is. so regretfully... 4096 keys.
mircea_popescu: re exponent, it's traditionally 0101 because cheaper calcs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no dude, consider the catechistic angle. "soo... why is your key 515 byts ?" "i dunno, his lordship mp said so" "why ?" "nobody knoiws, really. he just says things." "so how do you calculate it ?" "first, you set ffa to 520 bytes..." "why did he say 515 then ?" "uh... that's a good question."
mircea_popescu: no, it is not, in that it would simplify routines. that's what makes it an aesthetic non-choice.
☟︎ mircea_popescu is really pissy that "gotta use trad width keys" ended up imposed on him!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: because 4096 will accomodate all computers up to 4096 bit ones.
mircea_popescu: which is how "it's either 4096 bits long or get lost" ends up in there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, and then you're going to compute 192 keys on 256 bits, and wonder why the fuck are you not using 256.
mircea_popescu: and if your key isn't 2^n, further computers will wreak havoc on deployed code by requiring non-dividing Ns.
mircea_popescu: but this important point has important consequences, because now we can't have my eccentric rsa keys. must be 4096, because the only alternatives ffa permits are 2048 which is too short and 8912 which is too long.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: turns out my mock-rewrite was more on point than originally thought.
mircea_popescu: and then why can't we use 32 bit aritm on 64 bit machine ?
mircea_popescu: "N must be 64 because at some point i nthe past a 64 bit machine was released and we care ; N will not have to be 128 in the future because even though an 128 bit machine will probably be released in the future, we don't understand the future and consequently do not care"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this has been the worst explanation of a rationale in recorded history. care to do it over ?
mircea_popescu: answer the q then! when a 128 bit computer is sold, ffa word will ahve to increase to 128 bits ?
mircea_popescu: and an update when the 128 computer hits the shelves ?