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herbijudlestoids: BingoBoingo: i mean acute as in relative to l-tyrosine
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BingoBoingo: Also there is no such thing is an acute precursor unless you want to talk prodrugs like codeine
ThickAsThieves: fava beans are the best beans
herbijudlestoids: BingoBoingo: um, no, the beans contain L-DOPA which is an acute dopamine precursor, l-tyrosine is much more effective and less acute, precursor to all catecholamines
herbijudlestoids: asciilifeform: ah right. thx...i appreciate the gesture :)
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: If you want catecholamine precursors though Lima/Fava beans work just fine
asciilifeform: herbijudlestoids: recipe, for stowing four octets in the blockchain.
BingoBoingo: I only brought Zyprexa up, because Vitamin H would have been too obvious...
herbijudlestoids: i dont take any synthetics, l-tyrosine is a metabolic precursor you can easily obtain from food :)
herbijudlestoids: asciilifeform: thanks for your generosity i guess, what is this?
herbijudlestoids: so you want to increase your motivation?
herbijudlestoids: asciilifeform: in that case i would always use freenet, but i dont want persistence and prefer 10,000 lamers to have the packets in their NIC than on their disk.
asciilifeform: because this way 10,000 lamers are all equal candidates for the inquisition, for having said packets on disk
mircea_popescu: because it's better to fuck willingly than to get fucked ?
herbijudlestoids: asciilifeform: i make that assumption, but i why would i WILLINGLY persist something in the blockchain
mircea_popescu: i gotta learn to touchtype already.
mircea_popescu: shit, beaten to it again
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids your notion that stuff going through the internet is ephemeral boggles me :D
asciilifeform: herbijudlestoids: assume that every packet you send over the public net gets 'persisted' regardless of whether you asked for it
herbijudlestoids: i definitely do not want to persist anything in any blockchain!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform by the way : have you considered this is probably a major driver for the altcoins ? do some secret messaging, in ten years nobody will exist with a copy of the blockchain anyway
asciilifeform: the agreement only needs to happen once
herbijudlestoids: why on earth would i persist OTR conversations into the blockchain
asciilifeform: because if it isn't, you can stuff bytes in the btc block chain.
herbijudlestoids: asciilifeform: it is not a working TWINKLE :)
herbijudlestoids: yeah...no...i would likely use the gnunet for F2F comms
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: Turtle routing is kind of like i2p except the assumption exists you actually know and meat/meet everyone you connect to.
herbijudlestoids: if i wanted F2F i would use gnunet, but i want intermediary nodes to take the traffic load, i dont want to talk directly to the counterparts IP
herbijudlestoids: i dunno what a twinkle is, but my name is sina, so close enough :P
asciilifeform: it depends on what the project is. if it's a lamecoin, it could be 10,000 schmucks. if it's a working TWINKLE, your name is shamir and they already know where you live.
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: Why not turtle routing if it is only two known parties that can exchange credentials in person?
mircea_popescu: they can take place over the naked body of mary.
mircea_popescu: they won't KNOW it's you, they will however know it's none of the other schmucks.
mircea_popescu: if for no other reason then because it is probably feasible for the adversary to build a list of people and then cross names off
herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: i told you like 50 times we are using OTR to encrypt conversations that take place over i2p
herbijudlestoids: it has to be impossible for anyone to ever use those communicatoins to find out who is running the project.
mircea_popescu: i doubt otr actually covers this case.
asciilifeform: talk in real time?
herbijudlestoids: over the internet.
herbijudlestoids: we need to talk...maybe once a month or less...
herbijudlestoids: there is another geek, somewhere on the internet. we work on a project together. if someone wanted to attack that project, the easiest way would be to find out who ran it
herbijudlestoids: the problem i would like to solve, is very very simple
asciilifeform: no need to be specific
herbijudlestoids: asciilifeform: i cant really tell you that
asciilifeform: herbijudlestoids: what problem would you actually like to solve? that is, what is the portrait of the enemy? and what is to be protected?
mircea_popescu: i gues in the sense of no signatures...
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I an imagining less explosions, but kind of yes. Sabotaged key under the rug that is both useless and leaves a trace of attempts at its use.
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asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: grenade sans pin with the spoon held down by the rug, if you like.
herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: these are literally the problems OTR was designed to solve lol
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Twist in the plot: key under the rug can't withstand the torque necessary to turn the lock and breaks inside...
mircea_popescu: just finish each message with "next message in the form of lolcats"
mircea_popescu: there's a long distance from this to making "a meta-protective protocol" tho.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids this is a decent point, in that you'll both need to be on the same page.
asciilifeform: standardized stego (e.g. 'let's all encode messages in the lowest color bit of lolcat photos) is about as useful as the practice of hiding your house key under the door mat.
herbijudlestoids: dear diary: today i hired mircea_popescu as a security consultant, and he told me to magically contact my counterpart to let them know they need to listen to eadio on certain frequency at certain time
mircea_popescu: well i have the converse problem : not sure how to make it clearer.
herbijudlestoids: how is the channel known
herbijudlestoids: what im saying is i can walk into the city, reaver a WPS pin, login using tails and communicate over irc/jabber/whatever over i2p
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids so you're trying to gain some destandardization back. already a step in the right direction, but why do it this windows style.
BingoBoingo: i2p makes tor look easy.
asciilifeform: steganography is an actual field, anyone for whom traffic analysis is more than an academic puzzle would do well to learn the basics;
herbijudlestoids: all they could possibly know is that im using i2p
herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: but i have not identified the channel
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: Imma just adding further reading. Sometimes the noise between the lines can have meaning. Even if it isn't obvious in your particular use case as you imagine.
mircea_popescu: keep the channel secret in your model.
mircea_popescu: you've already lost most of the battle.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids my general point here being that once you yielded to the adversary the identification of the channel,
herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: the requirement is to talk over the internet
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the q was to see if it's during or post delivery that the threat begins
herbijudlestoids: BingoBoingo: thanks for adding some useless lines to the convo
mircea_popescu: have them listen to radio shows
asciilifeform: if X is hostile, then anything X knows, the enemy learns immediately.
mircea_popescu: fine, call in to radio shows, have a modem buzzing in the background.
mircea_popescu: so you are trying to talk to identified entity X without anyone but X knowing it's you talking to them ?
lippoper: Well, that's your first problem ;-)
mircea_popescu: i mean... i still dunno what you're trying to accomplish. talk to the entire world secretly ?
asciilifeform: anyone who goes, 'i want crypto!' without some idea of the actual problem he is trying to solve, is in an advanced state of sin.
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: Who really doesn't matter. My "anonymity" is merely at the behest of polite requests to people who could confirm otherwise. Who talks to who is always difficult to hide. Focus on hiding the subject and the message.
mircea_popescu: on the data so far i'd suggest you get laid ?
lippoper: we only talk in person
herbijudlestoids: i give you the requirement, you must meet it, or not get paid.
herbijudlestoids: lets say iv hired you to be my security consultant then
mircea_popescu: a protocol is exactly the opposite of exceptional means.
mircea_popescu: by its very nature this is a rare occurence, best handled by exceptional means
mircea_popescu: i don't need an entire networking protocol to do that, tho.
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mircea_popescu: so the nsa knows i talked to a hooker. fuck them, i can post pics on trilema just as well.
herbijudlestoids: but if youre willing to accept the idea that i might like to discuss things with someone and not have parties on the wire who can identify me conversating specifically with that person...
mircea_popescu: instead of starting from weird edge cases, which then result in insane implementations that protect things that in the end don't matter.
mircea_popescu: think about what's likely to happen irl, when designing.
herbijudlestoids: i cant say too much about it
herbijudlestoids: i know my threat model :)
mircea_popescu: and can't be traced to a source... you're nuts, plainly stated.
mircea_popescu: but if you imagine random joe q person is going to spend resources to go through messages that cost nothing to make up
mircea_popescu: and those cost $$$
mircea_popescu: tho it seems unlikely they would even read it, seeing how book publishers 20 years ago didn't read all the manuscripts they got
mircea_popescu: sure, the guardian may want to have a random info dead drop, and i guess they may even read it
herbijudlestoids: so for potentially any number of reasons. maybe we are organising a protest together