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BingoBoingo: shinohai: You know a better place to drop that link...
shinohai: I wasn't sure it was lulzy enough, but may do a brief writeup before gf gets here.
BingoBoingo: Some China from the mines: The father sat reflecting on how much joy his two sons brought to him during the year. He decided to buy them both the present of their choice this holiday season. When he asked his older boy what he would like, the son replied, “Oh boy, I would like so many things. Maybe a bicycle, or new skis, or skin diving equipment. I wish I would have them all, but any one would make me happy.”
BingoBoingo: That was fine with the father, he now had some good choices. Next, he turned to his younger son, who was only eight years old. The boy envied his brother for all the games he could play and all of the sports he could do so well. When asked what he would like, he made one simple request. “I would like a box of Tampax Tampons.” The father was shocked, “What in the world do you want a box of tampons for?” he demanded angrily. The po
BingoBoingo: or boy, not knowing he had said something wrong, answered, “With Tampax, you can swim, ski, sky dive, horseback ride and play any sport you want.”
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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Of course this is a credibility washing exercise. Why do you think they stack the coincidences so high? To build suspicion!
jurov: Qntra shares distributed. gernika: do you know how to get them?
gribble: Error: "up" is not a valid command.
deedbot: gernika voiced for 30 minutes.
gernika: jurov: thx. I have an account on coinbr.com. Would that be the best way?
jurov: Yes. just pgp sign the text "I agree."
☟︎ gernika: jurov: ok. will be a bit. I'm currently in the process of vomiting out copious amounts of Rails code.
jurov: I need the account name, and whether it should be transferred there automatically from now on.
BingoBoingo: Domain khanacademy.org banned from Qntra comments due to egregious spam
shinohai: TIL Appelbaum is a fruit not only in name.
shinohai: Wonder if he has ever sued a hooker from clist because her snatch wasn't tight enough.
shinohai: Peace is a busy I guy, I do say.
trinque: Please do not abuse the ws->tcp proxy. << what could go wrong
shinohai: And ... i got banned for making > 20 requests to browser.bitcoin.io
shinohai: ec2-52-10-144-121.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com - what a surprise
trinque: forgot category "Altcoins"
jurov: no i have some russians on fb that do.. some stuff they dredge up is so funny
jurov: she looks pretty.. used
jurov: on another day, from a discussion whether one should come home to moscow: ну да. Баня, шашлык, фистинг
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a111: Logged on 2016-06-06 04:56 BingoBoingo: or boy, not knowing he had said something wrong, answered, “With Tampax, you can swim, ski, sky dive, horseback ride and play any sport you want.”
mircea_popescu: so there's a bunch of various people gangsta as fuck at the poker room of this casino of this retirement community that had originally been built in what was a us state but meanwhile was lost in some desert.
mircea_popescu: there's an ex-kgb ex-plutocrat dude ; there's an ex-yale ex-vc dude ; there's this dude used to run arms for rice in somalia ; and finally there's a rapper dude.
mircea_popescu: so they keep you know, fucking around, telling each other stories from back in their respective days
mircea_popescu: and eventually they decide to go for a ride in the desert
mircea_popescu: except they're all old and inept and ineffectual, they take this "suv" that's really running on a qcw-50 engine and take no water and whatever.
mircea_popescu: so a coupla hours later they're fucking stranded, and about to die, when this genie shows up
mircea_popescu: and the genie's all "of all the dumb fucks wandering in here ever since the injuns figured out how to half'n'half a buffalo, you're easiest the dumbest fucks"
mircea_popescu: "why you're so dumb i'd be loath to separate you from humanity. here, say where you each wanna go and i'll take you there, as an act of mercy (for you)".
mircea_popescu: so you know, one goes back to moscow, the other goes back to wherever the fuck
mircea_popescu: "well... all my friends are gone...i'm so lonely... listen, why don't you bring them back to me ?"
mircea_popescu: o btw asciilifeform wanna hear my inept symmetric encryption scheme ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: select a, b and c and take N=(a + sqrt(b)) / c so that N > 1 ; N < 2. for any message M, deflate, crc and split it up in two fragments a b so that neither is larger than 2/3 of M ; to encrypt calculate a^N*b ; b^N*a and pass those.
mircea_popescu: the idea being that in principle there should exist a set a b c so as to turn any encrypted text into ~any text you wish it to be
mircea_popescu: just saying, it's going to be either equations or else... "boxes" or wtf.
mircea_popescu: that's what aes did to try and escape "oh it's just maff", "fine we'll implement control structures".
mircea_popescu: right. which is what i'm saying : if you're into ditching snake oil, you'll have to come to equations.
mircea_popescu: now in principle if P, Q are the encrypted chunks, (P/Q)^(1/(N-1)) and (Q/P)^(1/(N-1)) yields the message.
mircea_popescu: and these trivially have any roots you wish them to have if you parametrize N
mircea_popescu: still. N could be something like 3kb and the scheme'd be still workable.
mircea_popescu: mno, because you don't actually have something to solve.
mircea_popescu: suppose you know P and Q. ok. what now ? you can't actually calculate N.
mircea_popescu: i've not done the actual math, per N size, but there's entire classes of messages that "could" work. you won't get enough precision until you have MANY messages.
mircea_popescu: weaponized, this would fuck up say 1 in 20 messages it'd be so taut.
mircea_popescu: well not reinventing, but obviously will be needed for any practical scheme.
mircea_popescu: yeah. but this is a lot more expensive sort of cycling than you know, hashing.
mircea_popescu: course i guess that's all happenstance, nsa starts building long divisor processors.
a111: Logged on 2015-10-07 13:41 mircea_popescu realises that probably no one else's light went off when alf was getting all excited about vmath that what he was seeing really was "omfg, usable molecular chem."
mircea_popescu: it's because there's no option : either algebra ; or else "control structures".
jurov: can't we abuse polynomial roots somehow for proven trapdoor function? Like, Abel–Ruffini theorem proves you can't solve certain polynomials algebraically
mircea_popescu: though some material recently linked made a very good point : "np complete" and other hardness discussions aren't even meaningful here. the term refers to WORST CASE, not to average case or anything.
mircea_popescu: saying "x is np hard" is like saying "the us is rich". everyone you meet there is still fucking poor.
mircea_popescu: so we likely need to re-do the hardness measurements anyway, from a crypto pov ; to use it in a crypto pov.
mircea_popescu: the current discussion is from a "in house algebraicist" considering his job, "what's the worst that can come up when the suits decide to solve X"
mircea_popescu: but, that said : the principles to be built upon are exactly the "well, i can solve this any way you want" said the cracker to eve. hence, stuff like polynomial roots are very respectable idea.
mircea_popescu: that's the bitch now innit. that's at least what i was longfaced about earlier, "in practical eavesdropping you don't EVER care about message integrity. if your algebraic cyrptosystem is porous to someone saying "bring me all messages that discuss ALEODOR" or whatever, and then he can discern something about them - say that ALL possible forms of one use it in the negative - you're still as fucked as a three year old in a pedo
mircea_popescu: and there's absolutely no way that i can guarantee when drawing up the math of the cypher, that "all uses of symbol X will always be ambiguous in the space" or w/e dumb shit.
mircea_popescu: which is starting to explain how chinese ended up chinese rather than a proper language.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-06 15:01 asciilifeform: 'Hey there! My name is Jacob Appelbaum. I'm pretty famous for stealing other people's research and putting my own name on it. I also spend a lot of my time pretending to be a badass hacker, but actually I can only barely code. I enjoy using my social capital, influence, and power in order to manipulate other people into getting what I want. From all that, it's pretty clear that I'm awesome! However, in severa
mircea_popescu: take patriarchy white man's "house of thought" give it to some rats ?
jurov: i dunno, polynomials are studied long enough so that some could be proved insolvable
mircea_popescu: jurov you recall that story with the trains and the fly ?
a111: Logged on 2014-11-21 01:38 mircea_popescu: well anyway : two trains moving on the same track leave simultaneously 29 miles apart, one doing 5mph the other 7mp. a fly caugh between them flies straight until it reaches a train then turns back and recurses, doing 9mph.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform oh incidentally, node coloring! what's that called ?
a111: Logged on 2014-11-23 06:19 asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu i was reading a circa-1958 issue of american magazine 'popular science', and guess what was in it -
http://imgur.com/mZnf775 mircea_popescu: in other news i finally replaced a rather loud psu. life's good!
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-06-06 15:10 asciilifeform: imho the only interesting mystery here is what it was, that was so loathesome, that even appelbaum refused to do it and had sentence of shitburial carried out.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-06 15:54 jurov: Yes. just pgp sign the text "I agree."
a111: Logged on 2016-06-06 18:22 asciilifeform: 'This will create a real full node in your browser: your browser will connect to the p2p network and do all of the block verification/serving.' << l0l suuuure.
BingoBoingo: In other news, in spite of being broke the Illinois government is about to resurrect its program to reintroduce Aligator Gar. I am thrilled!
BingoBoingo: Very delicious as poor man's substitute for crab in crab cakes.
mircea_popescu: dude gtfo, trans porn is interesting in the same sense any other gore is interesting.
mircea_popescu: just because people turn heads when passing crashes doesn't mean running car into wall is "a sexuality"
BingoBoingo: Stahp invalidating the experiences of the Impactualsexuals
mircea_popescu: speaking of sexual offal, why is it that all the marginal women ~nobody'd give the time of day imagine they "speak for all of us", ie, somehow represent femaleness an' womanhood ?
☟︎ shinohai: I was thinking more of hire 4-5 trannys from backpage, ship sex vids to aforementioned countries. Profit.