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gabriel_laddel_p: ben_vulpes: how do I upload a file to an in-republic bot?
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhGtad_BUlc << this is the good one. "rapprochement march". imagine you being on the other side and trying to prevent for instance a pincer closing but failing, and then the fucking idiots play this as they're linking up.
mircea_popescu: how fucking hard is it, the ENTIRE point of a military march is the neener factor.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-28#1592392 << it's particularly funny how this recycling works, where the same invention is supposed to have been separately invented and we're supposed to credit each "individual" derp with a full copy. ☝︎
phf: "a whistle blower leaked a video of the event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHSyySIECGE&t=2m3s"
asciilifeform is at a loss for words.
asciilifeform: this, incidentally, was a proggy that doesn't even use tcp.
asciilifeform: /opt/gnat/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.4/adalib/libgnat.a(socket.o): In function `__gnat_getservbyport':
asciilifeform: /opt/gnat/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.4/adalib/libgnat.a(socket.o): In function `__gnat_getservbyname':
asciilifeform: /opt/gnat/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.4/adalib/libgnat.a(socket.o): In function `__gnat_gethostbyname':
asciilifeform: /opt/gnat/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.4/adalib/libgnat.a(socket.o): In function `__gnat_gethostbyaddr':
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-28#1592256 <<< dude seriously, with the fucking ridiculous merit washing. plox to compare and contrast that shit with http://trilema.com/2014/interacting-with-fiat-institutions-a-guide/ ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-12-28 23:09 Framedragger: come on now, rust is not necessarily a shitlang. :)
asciilifeform: (you can do this experiment yourself, it is not difficult, just takes a few thou. usd / mo.)
asciilifeform: it was a snore. but srsly, these people.
asciilifeform: at one time ~i, personally~ was logging a small double digit % of all tor traffic.
asciilifeform: understand, folx who associate with tor, are a riotous laugh
ben_vulpes: if you don't bottom it out it's not a proper test drive
asciilifeform: Framedragger: this is 'doing crypto' like a hobo throwing up in the hallway of university physics dept. where he was let in from the cold, barfing and liquishitting before making it to the toilet, is 'doing physics'
asciilifeform: now, back to Framedragger's gurl, 'This work is potentially applicable to other OTF and internet freedom projects, including Tor (if we ever allow linking against Rust code) and Signal. After a meeting with Trevor Perrin, we've also added to our todo list (probably after this project is done, so with alternate funding) to incorporate into curve25519-dalek some additional functionality required for the Signal protocol.'
a111: Logged on 2016-09-29 14:55 asciilifeform: (in actuality, in 'identity-based' crypto, folks actually encipher to a pubkey that is produced by F(Pc, X) where Pc is the chump's email addr and X is a public key of the great inca; chump (email addr holder) can decipher with his Pk_c private key, and so can the inca.
a111: Logged on 2015-04-02 14:58 asciilifeform: 'Boneh, in joint work with Matt Franklin, constructed a novel pairing-based method for identity-based encryption (IBE), whereby a user's public identity, such as an email address, can function as the user's public key. Since then, Boneh's contributions, together with those of others, have shown the power and versatility of pairings, which are now used as a mainstream tool in cryptography. The transfer of pairings from theory t
asciilifeform: looks like a rerun of oooooooooold movie, http://btcbase.org/log/2015-04-02#1084135 . ☝︎
asciilifeform: 'Technically, an ABC is signed by an issuer using a special digital signature to provide specific security and privacy properties....'
asciilifeform: r, credit card number as well as more mundane data, like hair colour and favourite dish, are called attributes in this model. Some of these attributes are not identifying (e.g. age or hair colour) whereas others are (e.g. name or social security number). An attribute-based credential is a cryptographic container for attributes represented as integers. The two most important technologies that realise attribute based credentials are Mi
asciilifeform: 'In most computer-related scientific work a digital identity is considered to be a set of characteristics describing certain properties about an individual. This set is dynamic, and depends on the context in which the individual is known. The attribute-based credential technology implements this model; see for instance [Camenisch et al., 2011,Alpár and Jacobs, 2013]. Personal characteristics, such as age, name, social security numbe
Framedragger: and ecc, i wonder where your wrath was towards bitcoin, in that regard. (i am aware that you were never a bitcoin enthusiast tho, so there's that)
Framedragger: come on now, rust is not necessarily a shitlang. :) ☟︎
asciilifeform: ed on algebraic MACs. [3] The construction of this scheme required a library for working with points on an elliptic curve, [4] which Henry de Valence and I have implemented in Rust, using a curve25519 in Edwards form. Henry has made more detailed announcement of our curve25519-dalek library on the curves mailing list, [5] and our documentation is also available online. [6]'
asciilifeform: (broke a cryptosystem? designed one ? implemented one ? hell, served time in a salt mine with 'cryptographers', at least ? any ? which ?)
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: ah, that *is* a nice way of putting it. but then, it's a much weaker assertion than "define cryptoperson as someone who's heard of phuctor" :)
asciilifeform: for a week or so.
Framedragger: but it is a bit funny how all of these "is element part of this precious set" functions defined in tmsr yield elements only from tmsr. you'd say that's not a problem, but you know.
mircea_popescu: moreover, defense of the "busy elsewhere" line does utterly require them ~to have done something~. which... "oh, i existed" isn't a doing.
mircea_popescu: that'd be a matter of perspective now wouldn't it!
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu : fwiw i never used wp's uploadtron, never wanted to, and configure my wp in such a way that all files on disk are read-only.
asciilifeform: 'Code page conversion renders binary files unusable during encryption #169' 'Oh god. I don't know what to do here. Unencoded or differently-encoded data needs to undergo this conversion. However, there's no way to detect valid unicode… it's essentially arbitrary binary. I'm at a loss for what to do here, and open to suggestions.'
mircea_popescu: and that's the entire point of the forum as it works and the other things as they develop - to make recourse in assumption not merely possible, but a matter of course.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well ima try whatever multidot random file a sec
mircea_popescu: you know what you know in a solid and sustainable way when assumption is backed by recourse.
mircea_popescu: anyway, phf 's notion of "recourse" is a lot more important than directly obvious in context ; it's a direct restatement of the "opposable" concept used in discussing deedbot payment design, and altogetgher the trestlework of sanity in operations.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: would you humor me and upload a genesis.vpatch.mircea_popescu.sig and let me know what your mp_wp does?
Framedragger: (also apologies if my continued presence renders a constant source of radiation damage)
mircea_popescu: phf the clearing of head is a slow and painful, mostly private process. now he has a definite reference point to come back to later at least.
Framedragger: one or two. i know both. the other guy is a guy
Framedragger: (and no it's not a 'formal proof' i know.. :/ )
mircea_popescu: so you went to a room where a bunch of other kids were and you met this girl who said "hi, i'm isis[agoralovecruft]" ?
mircea_popescu: he's a good guy, publishes software.
mircea_popescu: i'm saying isis is as good a referent as FUCKGOATS. have you met him ?
Framedragger: oh you're saying 'isis' doesn't have a good referent. i agree. she has a pgp key alright.
mircea_popescu: unlike framedragger, however, it's not one dork your age, but a bunch of them.
Framedragger: her handle is 'isis agora lovecruft', it's a pseudonym, retarded or not, like framedragger
mircea_popescu: no. what i am saying is that the isis handle is not "a" or "girl".
mircea_popescu: it's a foregone conclusion at this point.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger think for a second, obscure "students" in obscure "technical universities" know about it
mircea_popescu: moreover, it's a fine lithmus test : doesn't know of phuctor by now, isn't actually involved.
Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-28#1592214 << entirely possible folx weren't aware of phuctor, it's not exactly advertised much. (then again, cue mp's "they don't have a right/privilege not to be aware"..) ☝︎
asciilifeform: 'The Obama administration rolled the executive order out to great fanfare as a way to punish and deter foreign hackers who harm U.S. economic or national security.'
asciilifeform: and apparently, https://archive.is/eKFGo is still a thing
mircea_popescu: seems entirely a product of "leakage intensifies, we might have to fire whole army on short notice at this rate"
pete_dushenski: speaking of tagging, looksee what i spotted at the base of a lamp pole recently : http://www.contravex.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TRB-everywhere.jpg
asciilifeform: ecision or I approve the removal.' << not spoken quite like a d00d who plans to get off the throne at the appointed hour, now is it.
asciilifeform: 'First, section 507 of the bill would authorize certain cabinet officials to "drop from the rolls" military officers without my approval. The Constitution does not allow Congress to authorize other members of the executive branch to remove presidentially appointed officers, so I will direct my cabinet members to construe the statute as permitting them to remove the commission of a military officer only if the officer accepts their d
pete_dushenski imagines poem about a poop named eulora
asciilifeform: i.e. a toilet
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not related, same eggog whenever you're missing a patch
mircea_popescu: o look, this is a known bug known since... 2006
asciilifeform: it's a tupolev, approximately.
mircea_popescu: tbh i'm not a great fan on the twitch frenzy "rts" style. i expect fighting to be a lot closer to the tbs roots of, eg, mm7.
mircea_popescu: who knows, maybe in a few years the gfx level goes way up and it'll turn it into a good investment.
pete_dushenski: let this therefore be remembered as the time alf pissed away 0.3btc (30mn ecu) on his eulorabox build. but hey, nothing like a little deficit to urge on the bot-crafting imagination! watch alf knock down all four hackathon prizes now.
asciilifeform: lel that's a 2d card...
asciilifeform: i meant, it's a konsooomer board, not a rarity of whatever kind
Framedragger: heh, speaking of 'provably fair' and location in question (tallinn), they've been doing e-voting (for all major elections etc) for a few years now. iirc code audits showed weak spots, multiple sek0rity expert teams, advisory bodies etc recommended to shut it down because it was unsafe, but proud estonia knows better.. :p
phf: all these snowy landscapes remind me that i miss snow. i might need to go somewhere cold for a week or two..
phf: this is a proper buenos aires scene http://www.insecam.org/en/view/343710/
Framedragger: not enough butt-sniffing, so maybe that's a no.
Framedragger: given that this is in san francisco, am i looking at a typical californian startup hackaton here?
asciilifeform: when i ran evil tor exit, collected a bunch of these
mircea_popescu: http://www.insecam.org/en/view/384721/ << looks like a great place to take a coupla sluts and some rope/chain
asciilifeform: the man's a living mushroom, i dun think this has a constructive answer
mircea_popescu: which i suppose warrants a general warning : DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR GCC TO 5.0! SAVE YOUR COPIES OF 4.X AND PRIOR! ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: pick it up - there is no meat in it, only a billion ant
asciilifeform: in other probably-not-news, http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/ug540/?raw=true << MOST gentoo mirrors have been converted into 'glue traps' where you either get 'file not found' for a CATALOGUED package (best case), or it HANGS FOR FIVE WHOLE MINUTES on 'PASV ...'
a111: Logged on 2014-06-22 17:22 asciilifeform: that many of the titles bear a striking resemblance to each other. "Adaptive Mesh Analysis" reads one and "An Adaptive Algorithm for Mesh Analysis" reads another. Dividing the total remaining by the average number of repetitions halves the list again. Mozart disappears before your very eyes.'
a111: Logged on 2016-12-23 14:07 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-21#1587182 << speaking of this, here's a question for the eager : a diophantine equation is a multivariate polynomial, something like ax+by^2 = 0. the question is : given an arbitrary finite set of known-good equations, can you use recursion to decide whether an arbitrary equation in the same variables is good (has integer solution) or no good ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the difference being you know, that "come up with block cipher with ~any~ theoretical basis" is more in the vein of http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-23#1589135 whereas eulora bot things are more in the vein of "fix yourself a martini" ☝︎
asciilifeform: fits into a ~toaster-sized iron box.
asciilifeform: btw asciilifeform is building a massive 3d gpu + fast cpu + max ram etc. machine, and, among other uses, it will build+run eulora
asciilifeform: very basic jobs, comprehensible even to a retarded lemur, remain screamingly undone.
asciilifeform: (keccak or another hash can be abused as a stream cipher, but it is precisely 'retarded homebrew', i will leave the reason ~why~ as an exercise)
asciilifeform: cs is not a block cipher.
asciilifeform: and it's more or less a vacuum.
mircea_popescu: the vice-versa is a lot more concerning, for him.
asciilifeform: 'rocket is trivial, just sit in a pipe and throw hot gas out one end'
asciilifeform: esp. because ciphers are a blindingly obvious 'political art', where if you aren't schneier et al, you don't get printed in journals, invited to conferences, implemented by open sores monkeys, etc.
asciilifeform: or, the other obvious mega-question, why there is no STRETCHABLE (a la keccak) block cipher
asciilifeform: i asked 'professional cryptographers of international repute' and 0 answer beyond 'here's a banana, monkey boy'
mircea_popescu: which is why the republican strategy in sociopolitical cryptography is to isolate the nsa assets - the kochs and dreppers and schneiers + a bevy of small fry boecks etc. let them sit on hacker news and upvote each other to death, but otherwise, outside of the usg reservation, they may not opine and they may not be used as reference.
asciilifeform: pipeline doesn't leak timing either, because - if implemented correctly - you never branch on a secret (key or plaintext) bit.