asciilifeform: ( this should not horrify, but encourage. the logs are a very handy resource. )
asciilifeform: sina: if you've been reading anything other than the logs, you have a great deal of catching up to do.
asciilifeform: sina: subject is considerably trickier than charlatans (e.g. schneier) let on. in fact, most of what is available on the net, is deliberate disinfo.
asciilifeform: sina: if some % of the time i can determine how long it took you to carry out a secret key op (incl. key generation) i can determine a few bits of key. over time, i get 1/4 of them, and that is == to getting the rest.
asciilifeform: sina: are you familiar with the concept of timing side channel ?
asciilifeform: sina: i've been writing one, for some months now.
asciilifeform: sina: one of the things gossipd needs is a constant-time-constant-space rsa. if you don't have one, enemy can derive your privkeys remotely based on timing.☟︎
asciilifeform: sina: at least a few folx were playing with very similar things even before mircea_popescu wrote his essay
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/7bx0V << upstream in same thread << apparently he tried to draw a line, 'stfu with the monolithic unreadable patches'
asciilifeform: and that 'your' horse is somehow still 'your' AFTER you join kolhoz.
asciilifeform: gotta luvv the folx so slow on the uptake, who imagine being in 'a community' while having already been subsumed into usg faceless mass.
asciilifeform: from earlier, lulz, 'In April 2017, an unexpected and disruptive change was made to the MIT network: the sale of historically MIT-allocated IP address ranges to external entities such as Amazon. The sale wasn't announced to the MIT community until after it had taken effect. '☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: and produced differing orderings depending on the 'charset' set on the machine
asciilifeform: gnudiff, i found, in fact DID misbehave, on many a box
asciilifeform: erlehmann: 1) i have nfi what it does on corner cases 2) i have nfi how consistent is it across unixen, and how it misbehaves with, e.g., crapolade turdicode characters in the inputs
asciilifeform: ( what's a 'misproblem' ? let's say it is a problem that only exists because of misapplied concepts earlier 'up the stack' . see also the immortal prof. kokkarinen's 'alien problem', http://btcbase.org/log/2014-11-26#934852 thread . )☝︎
asciilifeform: immutable past is a prerequisite to ~authenticable~ past, and v gives it.
asciilifeform: so if you wanted to distinguish 'proper' vs 'bug' +++, you would have to make the grammar CONSIDERABLY more complicated, and transform the ENTIRE input text, and then un-transform it BACK, every time
asciilifeform: erlehmann: the +++ thing was actually a more serious problem than you might walk away thinking on first reading -- because it is physically impossible to fix it without MAKING NEWLINES SIGNIFICANT semantically
asciilifeform: maybe it does, maybe it doesn't, but it'd take same, IF NOT GREATER, effort, for asciilifeform to ascertain the truth of this statement, as to rewrite the linked proggy
asciilifeform: erlehmann: that looks a lot like my original vdiff.
asciilifeform: but gotta remember, erlehmann , that one man's 'this is ON EVERY SYSTEM, motherfuckers, not an optional shitlib' is another's optional shitlib.
