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mircea_popescu: a deterministic wallet can have its uses, but they typically aren't "user trying to cheat on running a node".
mircea_popescu: only need ~6.6k. there's about 100k total whores in the pron records.
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.
mircea_popescu: PeterL + padlen = min(keya.l, keyb.l) - 1 # make sure that the strings will not overflow the key mods << i don't get it, why do you have variable length keys ?
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: are you trying to say that since there's only 2^32 possible values for the crc, it then follows that 1 in 4bn will match ?
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.
mircea_popescu: crc checks that the string is the same now as it was when crc was originalyl computed
mircea_popescu: this is what crc does : for blasts up to its size, 100%. for larger blasts, proportionate.
mircea_popescu: PeterL if your string is 250 chars, there is 0 probability that an up to 32 bit setcion being altered in any way will not be caught up
mircea_popescu: once implemented, "theft" dropped like 90%. which is more than any usgstani effort has, or ever will do.
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" ?
mircea_popescu: if the machine is on and i'm long dead, am i online cuz it pings ?
mircea_popescu: there's no real concept of "online" i can form in my mind. for instance, am i online when i'm not online ? i do read the logs... in what sense am i not online ?
mircea_popescu: yes, but it ruins the security of the scheme, as i don't expect you will be sending pings to ips associated with bogus keys ?
mircea_popescu: true. the obvious advantage of patching is that it makes it easier for readers of code to review deltas. but then again, rebasing makes it easier for writer, less shit to maintain. balancing act.
mircea_popescu: PeterL incidentally, did oyu rebase instead of patching ?
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 also there's specifically no allowance for "time" to be transferred. receiving station timestamps with its own time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if victim were spherical and resided in vacuum...
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.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, afair the threshold for ultrasound biodetectable effects (in rats) was 180db or so.
mircea_popescu: PeterL you can't use unpadded rsa. it du nwork that way.
mircea_popescu: PeterL what did you end up putting in, wrote keccak variant ?
mircea_popescu: ~only known use for item comes from the 90s, have nympho take a seat on overturned woofer.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall back when the various uss self-destroyers got equipped with "LRAD" for great bezzles ? 90s fad.
mircea_popescu: except... oh noes! oil was actually pretty fucking irreplaceably cool ?!?!!?
mircea_popescu: "we're running out of oil, letr's find fun things to do with electricity"
mircea_popescu: all this wunderwaffen is just like the railgun, if you recall that discussion.
mircea_popescu: such as : epochal switch on cuba! it... didn't survive his term.
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: asciilifeform this works better in theory than in practice.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes ? though it was israeli iirc, and worked irl abou as well as the recently reported stink bombs.
mircea_popescu: shinohai maybe russian hackers did it. they messed with cuba's sound.dll
mircea_popescu: maybe they got cancer from listening to ustardian daytime tv.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the entire capacity of cuba's electricity network is what, 8 MW or so ?
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: of course, the acoustic energy saturation dampens with distance (by the cube) and with obstacles. the jet needs something to the tune of 100 MW to take off, and all this buys you at close range and in open air is bleeding from the ears, not magical symptoms such as bruises, concussions or other mysteries.
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.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, amusingly enough, soros' long standing tax evasion conviction or any mention of his decades on the lam have somehow entirely disappeared from all usg's wikipedias. NEVER OCCURED!!!
mircea_popescu: possibly the largest end product of the whole mechanical orange revolutions effort of rice's dept of state.
mircea_popescu: mostly used to launder "leaks" in the vein of "russian hackers" would have obtained had the leaks pointed the other way.
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'.
☝︎ 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 ?