a111: Logged on 2017-10-05 19:20 apeloyee: we had that thread today!!!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform pretty sure that's BingoBoingo o no wait, was it cazalla's good friend ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-05 19:50 apeloyee: on what planet gcd(a,b)<>gcd(b,a).
a111: Logged on 2017-09-20 19:26 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lookx to me like your addition dun commute ( or associate... )
a111: Logged on 2017-10-05 19:55 BingoBoingo: ethnic enclaves, they never fail to put on a smile and admire everything Asian. Without the Asian industriousness and food, the Westerners will just be cave people just like their cave-dwelling ancestors not too long ago. One has to wonder why didn’t the Mongol overlords finish colonizing these Westerners and turned them into proper Asians. In the near future, the Chinese will just do that because the spineless lazy Westerners have gr
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not really. they even tolerated left hand writing, to some degree.
mircea_popescu: bear in mind tho that i come from the civilised third of romania.
mircea_popescu: no, vlad was voievode of the south, actually. this'd be the northwest.
mircea_popescu: whereas most stories of romanian independenciality tend to come from 3rd 3rth, the north east.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-19 16:12 mircea_popescu: (the source was 80s dispute wrt to general public's apparent bottomless appetite for purchasing luxury goods -- in eastern communism this includes meat, washing machines, electricity, etc -- for which they won't even have the fucking decency to pay in hard currency, but aim to use the worthless reminbo internal scrip)
mircea_popescu: boys fought for the proper cut of bread (ie, the end bit, for some reason, was the only proper bit). but the last time communal eating was common was just about kindergarten
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform oh, yeah, but teh story was subtly different.
mircea_popescu: such as -- 4yos ; girls not boys ; mostly me being an uppity snot. that sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: pretty much all common man could have for the asking wo9uld be dog food parts, lower chicken legs, necks, that sorta thing.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform pretty sure that's BingoBoingo o no wait, was it cazalla's good friend ? << He was the cheif jizz mopper cazalla and self cut teeth on
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ran a fake miner farm scam fore a while in iirc 2013 << Perhaps something that early but mostly 2014 thing. Complete collapse happened between Xmas and New Years
BingoBoingo: In other 12 hour sagas "The remains of a possible fetus were discovered by a custodian Wednesday in the bathroom of Wirth-Parks Middle School in Cahokia. The coroner arrived at the scene shortly after 8:30 p.m. and carried a small, covered box into the school." << "‘Fetal remains’ found in school bathroom actually a used feminine hygiene pad"
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Foreigner, in a language which apparently features a high degree of mutual intelligibility in its region
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: in other news, HOLY SHIT has vegas gone down. seriously, that's how the rug and curtains of a "multi-millionaire"'s suite look like, in 2017 ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-06 02:53 BingoBoingo: In other 12 hour sagas "The remains of a possible fetus were discovered by a custodian Wednesday in the bathroom of Wirth-Parks Middle School in Cahokia. The coroner arrived at the scene shortly after 8:30 p.m. and carried a small, covered box into the school." << "‘Fetal remains’ found in school bathroom actually a used feminine hygiene pad"
mircea_popescu: btw, is that the new "african american" pc term ? i seem to recall chapelle making a big deal out of wanting to be called a "custodian" in one of those hennifer-lopez level horrifyingly bad flicks he keeps churning out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: custodian-american sure as fuck has a certain ring to it, huh.
BingoBoingo: !~later tell mircea_popescu I can see that: "In them we Trust"
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
Framedragger: hello! reporting alive status. went for extended travels through portugal and the likes, moved into apartment in homeland, managing whole new (to me) world of poly relationships, and other fun stuff.
☟︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-10-05 16:33 trinque: if folks are ashamed of not having time for the republic, there's more shame in being unable to say so.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-05 18:20 mircea_popescu: ok so results of audit : Framedragger, shinohai, phf : your bot has no help implemented whatsoever, in spite of spec. trinque Framedragger you don't follow the json/sexpr portion, bot simply puts out the same help.
Framedragger: ty diana_coman. sad to see the state of tmsr isp affairs. i suppose it was kind of always like this, the state simply got.. actualised, so to speak. still, am planning on giving small talk on ssh scan to hackerspace people, wanted to link to phuctor, now - can't. :(
☟︎ Framedragger: i assume that asciilifeform's recent ping was in connection to my attempt to update the cached stats - he saw the
http request for one of the large pages on dulap when it was still alive
diana_coman: Framedragger, I think there was some ping re the customs duty for fg when you were in the UK too
Framedragger: ah there was that, too. will go thru backlog. still interested in some particular detail diana_coman?
diana_coman: since I recently got similar notice to pay and I was trying to see if you had some post somewhere to link to
diana_coman: I think the only sort of unclear thing is why the difference (mine was a bit higher) but it's probably correlated to value of package I suppose or something
Framedragger: nah nothing like that, only those irc lines you saw.
Framedragger: yeah i think they have a minimum VAT fee + royal mail fee, and then the VAT increases after some threshold of declared value or somesuch. or, increased fees / inflation...
diana_coman: anyways re state of isp affairs I don't see it getting any better by itself
Framedragger: yes but someone committing to the project without having the necessary time is not far away from malice, imho
diana_coman: well, one can't commit what one doesn't have, sure
a111: Logged on 2017-10-06 11:40 Framedragger: hello! reporting alive status. went for extended travels through portugal and the likes, moved into apartment in homeland, managing whole new (to me) world of poly relationships, and other fun stuff.
diana_coman: hi mod6, I've set up a public node running vanilla trb, at 103.36.92.112; it's still getting up to date so probably not of much use yet but it's meant to stay as it is anyway (it's at ~260k atm)
☟︎ mod6: diana_coman: awesome, thanks for standing that up! let us know how it goes.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-06 11:55 Framedragger: ty diana_coman. sad to see the state of tmsr isp affairs. i suppose it was kind of always like this, the state simply got.. actualised, so to speak. still, am planning on giving small talk on ssh scan to hackerspace people, wanted to link to phuctor, now - can't. :(
a111: Logged on 2017-10-05 16:42 asciilifeform: i refreshed archive.is of all the major pages 2-3 day before dulap went
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-06 13:55 diana_coman: hi mod6, I've set up a public node running vanilla trb, at 103.36.92.112; it's still getting up to date so probably not of much use yet but it's meant to stay as it is anyway (it's at ~260k atm)
mircea_popescu: "Although ISIS have repeatedly attempted to claim credit for the shooting, saying Paddock had recently converted to Islam, both his brother and authorities have dismissed the claims. He had 'no religious affiliation, no political affiliation,' Eric said, adding: 'He just hung out.'" << good soviet!
☟︎ jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 2977 / 19 = 156.68421052631578
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 156.68421052631578 / 58 = 2.701451905626134
mircea_popescu: see, this is why no MAGA : us has been losing jobs to the east, where per-capita productivity is 170% higher.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 6000 / 19 = 315.7894736842105
mircea_popescu: vs 527 injured, so check it out, maybe there's some merit to that "5.56 wound round" theory.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform comparison of net results per capita of wtc bombing and lv shooting.
mircea_popescu: dood had 37% the kill efficiency and 167% the wound efficiency of the wtc folks.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: incidentally, either are many degrees of magnitude more valuable than any us citizen ever deployed in an armed conflict.
mircea_popescu: teh russian ww2 snipers sorta come close, but not rly.
mod6: john malvo & john muhammad
mircea_popescu: exact equivalent of that "russian geologist bad hunter" joke
mircea_popescu: anyway, consider asciilifeform : dood starts firing at 10pm, swat makes it in (as a "jumble", even) at 11:20.
mircea_popescu: this is about as long room service takes in the god forsaken shithole.
a111: Logged on 2013-11-08 05:01 asciilifeform: "the little black rifle" which is useless to our cause!"
a111: Logged on 2017-10-06 14:25 mircea_popescu: "Although ISIS have repeatedly attempted to claim credit for the shooting, saying Paddock had recently converted to Islam, both his brother and authorities have dismissed the claims. He had 'no religious affiliation, no political affiliation,' Eric said, adding: 'He just hung out.'" << good soviet!
shinohai: Those 72 virgins ain't gonna fuck themselves.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the amusing bit to my ear was the implicit "only good citizen is citizen who isn't doing anything"
mircea_popescu: we're supposed to think he's respectable because he was purportedly inactive in EXACTLY the same manner we'd have been supposed to think him respectable for being active, in the same place a century prior.
deedbot: lobbes voiced for 30 minutes.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-05 18:20 mircea_popescu: ok so results of audit : Framedragger, shinohai, phf : your bot has no help implemented whatsoever, in spite of spec. trinque Framedragger you don't follow the json/sexpr portion, bot simply puts out the same help.
mircea_popescu: speaking of ^ asciilifeform , how's the isp thing going ?
mircea_popescu: lobbes turns out i named Framedragger twice, but the first instance was supposed to be you lol/
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but specifically re the colocation part ?
mircea_popescu: heh. the errybody wants to not-do anything extends to dcs, does it.
trinque: will there be additional space in the rack to rent, or must rent a machine?
trinque has an xserve g5 collecting dust
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you talk to teh russkis in russian neh ? what foreigner ?
mircea_popescu: all these vast empires of grandiose technological achievements which upon examination fail to actually exist in any meaningful sense.
mircea_popescu: "and why did you bury this car halfway in the mud, mr X ?" "well, gotta produce cars for our own consumption, postmodern free trade world. what can you do."
trinque: if you pinch the nipples, do they go back to normal size?
mircea_popescu is not even kidding. ~1.1 liters or so. with ~1 liter being the low-average, in the sense of "average computed after excluding the outlying 10%"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i really don't see point of buying less than 1 rack.
mircea_popescu: you know the above ru may well be a case of "we don't deal with weirdos trying to get 1u for 1mo"
mircea_popescu: to quote the celebrated mr wolf, "get out of the sticks, boys."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nevermind that. many worse ways to waste money ; not many better.
jhvh1: asciilifeform: phf was last seen in #trilema 2 days, 21 hours, 4 minutes, and 30 seconds ago: <phf> asciilifeform: that i figured out, the whole contraption reminds me of that ru anti-temper device pdf that you posted recently
deedbot: phf voiced for 30 minutes.
phf: i've talked to a handful of 1 hop from mmtsm9 collocation facilities in moscows, and they can do 1u or rack. i also have a trusted non-wot who can oversee or handle the installation. if we're doing a rack, and "worse ways to waste money" me can try and go straight for mmtsm9 (which is rostelekom's main internet relay, i.e. local web providers, like telcos etc put their equipment there)
phf: i've not had time to get a corporation going this time around (mostly i need to figure out what the tax structure is going to be), but i'll be going back in a couple of months.
phf: i have someone who can handle these requests on my behalf though, for legitimacy
phf: i've catching up with the going ons in d.c. since i came back, so have a bit of low bandwidth at the moment. should free up in a week or so
phf: yes, it's called life :)
phf: there's curiously a lot of protests in d.c., with very well designed posters: artistic variations on the clenched fist, nice typefaces, the works.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: on the home front : we clearly need a box for phuctor, i will also want a box for eulora ; there's also need for a third box for general purpose bitcoining/qntra/etc. that's three, plus whatever anyone else wants to add. iirc we also got 3 box servers ready to fly out.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 18:42 mircea_popescu: is this something the foundation may maybe consider ? open us an embassy in beijing, hire a chick to sit there 4 hours/day or such ?
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-06#1721786 << this, fwiw, isn't even the giveaway it used to be. i personally supervised the release of piles upon piles of posters in us university campuses, for a very modicum costs. people off fiver just print what you give them, and put it up. nothing keeps you from having them print something decent, and with the abundance of "kids who fucked around with adobe illustrator instead of doing t
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-10-06 18:10 phf: there's curiously a lot of protests in d.c., with very well designed posters: artistic variations on the clenched fist, nice typefaces, the works.
mircea_popescu: every nonprofit has one, including nonprofits that don't actually exist.
deedbot: phf` voiced for 30 minutes.
phf`: not home, and i also didn't have time to process the information in detail yet, but i piped in since there was conversation. depends on what we want, baseline avg 3000 rub/mo $50 to put a 1u rack, with a 100mbit line, 300W. line is typically not metered, but also not guaranteed. then depends on our needs, an unmetered guaranteed 100 mbit line will cost another ~~$100 mo (to 1gbit around ~$500), plus whatever over cap on power usage.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is why you get rack : so you can specify something like 14.4KW and 24 Gbit link and then sort it inside.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-06 18:18 mircea_popescu: there's seemingly a lot of distance from this to 42u, but once the chinese woman tbf is hiring (is it ? mod6 ? ben_vulpes ? what's incremental from
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688633 discussion ?) starts hitting the hosting forums with offers...
phf`: mircea_popescu: i'll look into it. it would be helpful to know how many Us we'll be putting upfront, but i'll look at a rack. also i've no idea what kind of traffic requirements something like eulora or phuctor have.
phf`: i've no idea about bitcoins or dollars, since i have facilities to pay necessary amounts in roubles.
mircea_popescu: ah you can just handle rouble ? send you 10btc, you send out w/e 2.5mn rou or w./e it is ?
phf`: there's a bitcoin craze in russia right now (i.e. talk shows on t.v. discussing bitcoin as investment platform. dorky former FIDO node administrators talking about bitcoin mining on a rig in their apartments, etc.) so i wouldn't be surprised if i can find a colo that takes bitcoins. i haven't noticed one yet though
mircea_popescu: phf` i don't specifically care what they take ; but whatever it is they take, we'll have to figure out a process.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this "hire chinese chick in china" thing's been ongoing discussion.
ben_vulpes: moving, and an afk crisis in my life are eating my time.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i recall mod6 sending me a proposed draft for something at some point, but also weeks ago.
mircea_popescu: phf` so the question is very specifically, what do they take, and how do we sort it out ; it's in no case a "let's filter out whoever doesn't take bitcoins"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's good. also want more than 1 of these.
mircea_popescu: phf` anyway, we're getting, imo, the smallest lockable, stand-alone item. whichever that is. in no case less than 4u, except really, we much prefer to discuss by the kw and gb, as seen in the convo earlier.
ben_vulpes: i wrote a "hey tmsr, what would you use a cn embassy for" draft, which you saw, but since then i opened a line of conversation with a meatwot gentleman on the ground in cn who's working with me on finding dcs in chengdu and beijing in which i can lease a rack. "embassy chick" not at the forefront of these discussions because republican state of emergency.
mircea_popescu: so tell gentleman to make himself an account neh ? easier to comm here than via email or w/e anyway.
ben_vulpes: more important to me to get the locals into the wot, but i hear you
phf`: mircea_popescu: right, i figured paying is not going to be a problem, either directly with btc or in the format that you've described. finding a reliable colo, getting a number down. unfortunately i don't have a good feel for russian colo space yet, and people i talked to while happy with their colos didn't necessarily have tmsr demands.
mircea_popescu: the more of a chain is wot-illuminated, the better link control.
mircea_popescu: phf` well, on the other hand we gotta start somewhere. it's an adventure!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> iirc BingoBoingo was pounding the arabs/sw azns. << For some definitions of pounding, perhaps other definitions later
mircea_popescu: anyone inclined to go "oh i'd have done a much better job" after any particular doing is going to find himself buried under a thick wall of "why the fuck didn't you DO IT then!".
phf`: mircea_popescu: right, that would be the correct spirit :)
deedbot: phf` voiced for 30 minutes.
phf`: the place to be is of course
http://www.mmts9.ru they do have 1/2 rack but i haven't tried them, since wasn't sure about our requirements. they can even get you a personal cage. antenna placement on the rooftop so we can put a microwave relay, the works :p
mircea_popescu: eh, fuck the works. lemme quote from minigame boardroom : <dc> aia, am crezut ca na, ai ramas si fara net de la vanturi alea
mircea_popescu: <mp> pai am si ramas. adica : cind bate vint au problema cablurile, cind is nori incarcati are problema radio si cind is densi are problema satelitye uplink. intre cele trei m-o tot chitait doua zile de am cedat nervos si m-am dus sa ma culc ieri
mircea_popescu: ie, approximately, "wind hurts cables, charged clouds block radio, thick clouds block satellite, fuck it all."
mircea_popescu: i definitely want the dc to provide the uplink with w/e guarantee they can manage. i get it, outside of nato 99.999% isn't so common, but whatever they got.
phf`: well, in this case this is equivalent of sitting on the outside pipeline. everything else is a hop away, though the guys i was talking to sit on various short fibers from the facility
mircea_popescu: or rather, that's why normal people don't pick a hill in the midle of the jungle to plop down servers on.
phf`: are the servers sitting at vendors ready to ship to a destination, also is it going to go proper shipping container or through a consumer service? latter doesn't work reliably in russia and is generally discouraged
phf`: i'll have to look into it, if they were sitting on my porch, i'd send them by freight. i think dhl/fedex have suspended services to russia, to individuals though, i'm not sure what's the deal with corporate.
mircea_popescu: so basically russia argentinized itself, or what is it.
phf`: i suspect there's postal offices, "yandex package" and also some kind of baygun delivery service that can overnight from a chinese factory
mircea_popescu: i can't imagine the country actually works without some kind of such service though. i mean really, how do yo uget a wrench, walk to factory ?
phf`: asciilifeform: i can't find any news updates, last i heard from people is that fedhl packages go, but spend weeks to months in customs, for "inspection"
mircea_popescu: which brings to the fore the q "do we even wanna deal with russia".
mircea_popescu: if it's "two weeks to find out if you have to wait two weeks more or not" is how everything is done, utterly not worth bothering with.
mircea_popescu: and their historical hallucinations of sovereignity etc do promise a lot of idiocy in that vein.
mircea_popescu: what, and fly every time a computer needs a new buttplug ?
mircea_popescu: no computer is, ever was, or ever could be worth this much love.
mircea_popescu: it's a ddos vector dood. i'm not paying to get a rack so that enemy has a method to burn my engineer work hours. wtf.
phf`: well, we're speculating right now, i just know that it's something to think about. this dhl/fedex restriction is for individuals. perhaps business shipments fall under different rules.
mircea_popescu: phf` i am speculating. but there must be a way to get machiens there for it to work.
mircea_popescu: i don't even care, sure, if they have their own state courier they're trying to prop up in this way, more power to them, we'll use it.
mircea_popescu: but there is a huge difference between intelligent sovereignity and soviet idiocy.
phf`: mircea_popescu: that's understandable. but also we're and what we're shipping. e.g. hard drives can be purchased and replaced on the ground. it's a colo, ~someone~ will have to do a replacement and it's necessarily not going to be the facility
mircea_popescu: phf` except we ship boxes, as i understood the design, not for them to stick hands in our parts.
phf`: so we're explicitly shipping boxes from asciilifeform's home lab to a colo?
phf`: it seems that whatever space that's going to satisfy our needs is also going to make it non-trivial to exchange items with ~washington dc~
mircea_popescu: unless we have a ~trusted~ engineer on the actual ground there, we will be shipping from wherever it is convenient to ship. but items originate with us, not with randos.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that it's wash dc specifically, or alf specifically.
mircea_popescu: but it is VERY specifically NOT "oh, whoever anon herp"
phf`: mircea_popescu: that was never under consideration.
mircea_popescu: but yes, sure, my ideal world would be for you to live there and assemble them yourself, and go to colo and install self, and document whole thing on your blog.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, this "your raid needs new hdds hurr" thing is not flying. i don't need to "hire" a "colo" for them to re-do the whole cherryservers bs for me, now do i.
deedbot: phf` voiced for 30 minutes.
mircea_popescu: if i wanted that i could have it for the same coupla hundy or w/e. heck, apparently they'd even do it for free if we don't make fun of them for it.
phf`: i've no idea where that straw man came from. shipping things from u.s. to russia is tricky, but everything else is inherent in the problem. a ~colo~ in russia only makes sense if i also can somehow facilitate trusted upkeep. whether or not we can overnight a hard drive isn't going to make a difference in that case
mircea_popescu: so in this sense : an unmanned operation behind a maybe-porous wall is not in any sense useful.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: phf` well, strawman came from trying to discuss a rather unconstrained by actual data universe of possibilities.
mircea_popescu: i don't expect overnighting is the point. what's the point is that there's little difference between a colo you email to and run of the mill "dedicated servers" hosting.
phf`: i suspect that with proper infra we can overnight whatever we want. but a proper infra in this case might just be a corporation in russia, a corporation in u.s., a business account with fedhl, etc.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> poorly porous to us, but theoretically even moar so to pantsuit << Appeal of jungle is non-interference in white man's affairs. Downside is shifting past marketing speak to discover "1GBP/s unmetered (30Mb/s international)"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: phf` that wouldn't be a problem in principle. just has to be done.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo lol because i totally need 1gbps to talk to the rest of the pinoys or w/e"
phf`: mircea_popescu: if you're implying that my plan for colo was to ~hire~ people ~from~ colocation facility to do a sensitive operation like hard drive replacement, then i can't even! :)
mircea_popescu: phf` im not implying anything, and certainly not about you!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, that one was Vietcong
phf`: right, so this kind of logistics need to be figured out. which also explains why you started talking about hosting 3 years ago..
BingoBoingo: Checks one box, opaque to pantsuit. Fails on its soviet style USSA idiocy.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Which is why we may end up with 25 racks per lord and half the lords running ISPs
mircea_popescu: hopefully Framedragger is polyamorying with female sysadmins.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "coronary was BECAUSE SHE WAS FAT, and NOT because she was an excited fat person someone drove a car into" ?
BingoBoingo: If morbidly obese and has coronary while excited, cause of excitement is not material. Could have just as well been seeing a pallet of "Count Chocula" "breakfast cereal" causing terminal excitement.
BingoBoingo: Allowing a tort against the car with such a massive and sclerotic mitigating circumstance is insanity.
mircea_popescu: and in other random dribbles : i was going by teh sabana park (huge park here), noticed they had cut down some rainbow eucaliptus trees. so i had car stopped and... got a chunk for the trunk.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-02 19:43 asciilifeform: ( the 16s incidentally is , e.g., 10s, on intel box )
BingoBoingo does not know what other purpose free exotic wood from tree execution could serve other than production of curio or knickknack to celebrate the fortunate happenstance
BingoBoingo: Not like it hasn't already been shaped by tree's executioner
BingoBoingo: Well, keep it somewhere visible and eventually something will strike the fancy.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 4328.05, vol: 8924.41613709 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 4335.3, vol: 27386.14936518 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 4229.3316, vol: 0 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 4339.0, vol: 3262.05582362 | Volume-weighted last average: 4333.96997918
diana_coman: asciilifeform, I thought you were aiming for "what-we-want" rather than merely "usable-for-lack-of-what-we-actually-want"
diana_coman: asciilifeform, eulora needs a client-server communication protocol that at least allows client to decide for self the compromise between cost and some degree of confidentiality+integrity for the info it exchanges
diana_coman: asciilifeform, aka has access to some know to adjust cost vs protection essentially
diana_coman: obv atm nobody can actually give any sort of guarantee anyway so it's more of a model /ideal thing
diana_coman: asciilifeform, myeah, no guarantee, precisely
diana_coman: I get that, yes; it's anyway more than there currently is available otherwise; and not insignificantly more at that
mircea_popescu: did we do ? i'd have expected we had but log doth not return
mircea_popescu: asym key is specifically for this usecase. you--well known publisher ; me -- secret identity with the goods. i can safely send them to you.
mircea_popescu: yet whole point of "asym key encryption" is -- encrypted comms without prior key exchange. this specifically says "between anon parties"
mircea_popescu: and especially as reinforced via wot/trilema voiuce model, i expect this may endure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in fact, whole reason i'm even willing to do w/o email is that there exists this alternative thaty's so much better.
mircea_popescu: "In case you did, i hope this will be a lesson to you. Stop trading obscure tokens/coins!" << if THIS is "the lesson", then one wonders wtf is supposed to be the "ethereum value proposition" ?
mircea_popescu: given up on the whole dao nonsense, have they ? why are they still here, why the gun still unfired in their lap, why the brahms not playing ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform spam filtered by hard is how filtering always works and worked.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-06 21:14 asciilifeform: diana_coman: how do you picture this looking in practice ? variable-length keys ?
mircea_popescu: hang on, ima actually publish the discussion fragment.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6: this is the most brutal possible method that can still be called barrett : didn't even make use yet of the fact that we only want the upper halves of the mul results << spent the afternoon looking through your changes posted today vs.
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-02#1719721 ☝︎ mod6: glad to hear the progress. (im still reviewing barrett in Handbook of Applied Cryptpgraphy 14.3.3 & 14.3.4)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: basically the scheme is, you rsa a random bitfield, then you expand that into as much otp as you want by doing recursively Fi = hash(bitfield + Fi-1). there's a limit on i, obviously, which can be set to 1.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: the categorical alternative (literally what gpg does now) fell on the grounds of "at least we don't need aes" ; the obvious "cut R into bits and use each" seems to my eye weaker, tho who even knows.