asciilifeform: in other lulzies, https://archive.is/ImVWv >> 'An electronic market maker is suing Quoine, one of the world’s major bitcoin exchange operators, over trades that were allegedly wrongfully reversed... series of trades on April 19, resulting in B2C2 paying 309.2518 ethereum for 3092.517116 bitcoin.... But the next day, the trades were reversed by Quoine... Quoine told B2C2 that it was entitled to do so because the trades were “mostl

asciilifeform: y trades with huge mark-up over fair global market price”, the suit said.'

asciilifeform: 'Quoine in turn claims that B2C2 is “being opportunistic and seeking to profit from a technical glitch” It said the trades were “inadvertently” executed at the “abnormal rate of... 10 bitcoins for one ethereum, which was approximately 125 times higher than the actual market price of ethereum on April 19” because of a technical glitch.'

asciilifeform: 'It said the glitch arose because it was reconfiguring passwords for its critical systems to fend off persistent attempts by hackers to break into its systems.'

asciilifeform: such cosmic ray.

asciilifeform: usg.ethertardium pumpatron subcontractor caught red-handed by a sharp http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-27#1717884 , and tries to weasel out, 'unhappen' the resulting rape. ☝︎

asciilifeform: 'Given the “stark difference between the abnormal rate and the actual market prices of bitcoin and ethereum on April 19”, B2C2, which Quoine called a “sophisticated” investor with experience trading virtual currencies, should have suspected the “abnormal rate” was a mistake. ' ☟︎

asciilifeform: get this, 'they should have known' that it was a usg wash trade to pump ethertadrium price, and simply sat there, not, horror, matching it

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-28#1717995 << see also >> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-20#1716163 ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: and trivially is same as 'good prng'.

asciilifeform: none of these items -- exist; nor is anything resembling an approach to them, known.

asciilifeform: indices into pi, e, sqrt(2), whichever, are just the same obscurantist voodoo as any other approach.

asciilifeform: ( and it is entirely conceivable that some variation on the theme of bbp's function will give you a fast search for 'where in pi might this fuzzy match be' and the like ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: the fundamental boojum preventing anything like a rationally designed blockcipher-hash-prng , is that we do not actually have a theory of average-case problem hardness. ☟︎

asciilifeform: as discussed in 2016.

asciilifeform: any attempt at proceeding in the absence of said theory, is guaranteed to give you a 'it seemed clever and unbreakable to ME!' idiocy, a la aes et al.

asciilifeform: and, though it may pattern-match http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-16#1699167 -- it's still tru. and you can take it to the bank. ☝︎

asciilifeform: which is why i favour using rsa in place of blockcipher-hash-prng, painfully. the actual averagecase hardness of rsa is unknown and will probably remain unknown. but at least when you use ~solely~ rsa, you avoid introducing ANOTHER unknown.

asciilifeform: now you stand and fall strictly by rsa. P(rsabreak) is <= P(rsabreak AND whateverfucktardationyouusedforablockcipherbreak) , in all cases.

asciilifeform: OR , lol

asciilifeform: now you stand and fall strictly by rsa. P(rsabreak) is <= P(rsabreak OR whateverfucktardationyouusedforablockcipherbreak) , in all cases.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-02#1621198 << oblig classic thread. ☝︎

asciilifeform: cruciform: it's a manual process, you gotta talk to trinque

asciilifeform: !#s gpg rng

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-17#1523513 << starting with. ☝︎

asciilifeform: aaaaaaaaaaand crate #3 is here.

asciilifeform: will announce eventually.