asciilifeform: but imho 'better to be rich and healthy, than poor and diseased'
asciilifeform: sorta why i put the effort into crafting a demonstrably bug-free constantimetron, first thing, rather than 'let's use gnu gmp with massive keyz'
asciilifeform: good pipe is - sadly - still finitely good.
asciilifeform: will note that there are other ( noncryptographic ) ways to leak bitz
asciilifeform: this output doesn't contain anything you did not already know on demand tho
asciilifeform: sig gives you a novel fact re the private exponent
asciilifeform: the q of 'what am i paying this idiot to mumble at me for, then, i already knew where mains socket is' never seems to come up in victim's head
asciilifeform: 'water comes from tap' 'food, from store' 'mains current, from socket' 'crypto, from ssl' etc
asciilifeform: imho using anything less than the longest rsa key you can physically get away with on the hardware of your time, is simply nonsensical -- like using smaller bullet on enemy than you strictly must
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: do you have a link to the pantsuit dns-dekulakization of the 'alt right' people ? i can't be arsed to wade through the sewers to find the orig subj
asciilifeform: the buildroot (aka 'rotor') thing is a dour wartime expedient, in case anyone forgot -- if we had a musltronic linux, or a bsd (i.e. non-glibc os) it would be unnecessary
asciilifeform: ( failed , specifically, to produce a working gcc envir )