mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ahaha "hair the musical" is so apt!
BingoBoingo: Before nuclear deterrent theory fails http://trilema.com/2015/i-think-you-drastically-overestimate-the-military-importance-of-nuclear-weapons/
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> btw, that "we are vary silbert for your loss" is like so pregnant with meme. barry the sorry sorbet sillybert! << AHA!
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at the slut farm, http://68.media.tumblr.com/e0dfc368daeb41e58eb5b05a26eeae24/tumblr_npktzoArGE1tw7oszo1_400.gif
mircea_popescu: wants the state to do something.
mircea_popescu: tl;dr : aspie ro chick's mother becomes senile, girly is very indignant that her redditlife is interrupted and she was transformed into a traditional society woman WITHOUT HER CONSENT!!!
a111: Logged on 2017-08-11 18:02 asciilifeform: ( currently eating some of the vintage ro links therein )
mircea_popescu: in the vein of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-11#1697131 possibly teh best offering would be http://trilema.com/2012/doua-vorbe-in-directia-generala-a-unei-copile-vaitate/
mircea_popescu: btw, that "we are vary silbert for your loss" is like so pregnant with meme. barry the sorry sorbet sillybert!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that's quite plainly the mark of ascendancy. "demonstration" aka "here's proof you can't enforce the law on us", and appropriation, aka, "we think more than you and therefore your symbols aren't yours in any meaningful sense".
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: hax.se joins the rank of "websites" offline.
a111: Logged on 2016-02-17 21:08 asciilifeform: (the folks who laughed when i said 'no curl on trb build box' - still laughing ?)
mircea_popescu: guess what... "I don't see the appeal of startups at all. I have never been a gambler. big companies allow me to get paid well while not really doing much work A++"
mircea_popescu: "Could anyone really believe the earth was going to swallow up the incredible productive assets and unlimited human ingenuity existing in America?"
mircea_popescu: kinda why the country is doomed, not strictly speaking because "educators" who literally think the shamanic traditions of africa / sitting around in a circle chanting count ; nor because they "produce" "goods" that are literal painted paper like the rocks on a theatrical stage.
mircea_popescu: that dude's a fine example of usgistani ersatz. he hangs out in "personal finance" talking about finance, all the while his worldview is purely soviet socialism, command economy etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lulzy, ye olde curtisyarvin 'if it could dent statusquo, Mother Church would pray it away' nonsense marches on
mircea_popescu: apple could buy russia, if you're drunk and all the russians go to space ; meanwhile bitcoin bought america.
mircea_popescu: whodda thunk tardstalk can take over the entire pantsuit forum ?
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, apparently 90% of reddit advertising is bitcoin-scams, bitcoin-alts, i-cant-believe-it's-not-bitcoins and other such nonsense.
asciilifeform: ask the esperantists.
mircea_popescu: this is how it manages the inapproximable "whisks" of meaning that latin-style then has so much trouble noting down.
mircea_popescu: very different thing altogether.
mircea_popescu: a greek word is "what is left out of the space of all possible meanings once all the meanings interdicted by the other words have been removed".
mircea_popescu: the latin approach to language is "word is symbol for its definition".
asciilifeform: 'knowing the words'
mircea_popescu: (contrary to the naive expectation, common attic fluency is not achieved throgh "knowing the words". there is no such knowing.)
mircea_popescu: anyway. his ro "diortosire" is a very well illuminated source, as to the original material, and if one speaks ro one benefits from reading it even if one can also read the septuagint in original.
mircea_popescu: since the 1700s i mean.
mircea_popescu: (amusingly, because a succession of these since the 1970s, there's much better ro testaments than say en.)
mircea_popescu: amusingly, guy prayed he survive to complete translation of testament. did so. died thereafter.
BingoBoingo: "Oh the people NSA hired to read trilema in 2013 moved on to management and these new interns gotta start over"
BingoBoingo: Bigger radial problem for the spooks
mircea_popescu: it irks me that over time, the points made need ever more words AND STILL the jumps/gaps have to grow. fucking radial problem.
mircea_popescu: anyway, 0 shits given, becoming "more subtle" does not help the cattle empire. if the blunt didn't work, the sharp is a lulz.
asciilifeform: and ultimately to cement in place the practice of imposing nonbitcointronic constraints on what is spendable.
mircea_popescu: right, maybe there's some color-of-bits finally imported into bitcoin this way ? please ? so usg can still has a point in world ?
asciilifeform: the 3rd goal is to make the 'softfork' liquishit ' a necessity ' somehow, to harden it
mircea_popescu: so in this sense it makes securing the chain more expensive, which is a legitimate 2nd goal of usg.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the substantial weakness segwit adds to bitcoin chain security is that witout it, one needs the power to unwind the chain AND the keys of old txn to steal bitcoin. whereas with it, one only needs the hash power, as anyone can spend the segwit shit.
mircea_popescu: as part in the "bitcoin needs rewrite" thread.
asciilifeform: did we ever do the 'processing reorgs requires extending some credit to allcomers' thread ?
mircea_popescu: moreover, this is no different from any other rewind : if a long chain is orphaned a number of txn are reversed thereby.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes and block depth. if you make segwit tx a to me at height 1 and i put it into a normal tx at block 2, i can spend it from block 3 as my bitcoin, the segwitnmess is gone out of it. to steal it from me, one has to rewind all the way to block 1 again. which is possible, but expensive as the chain builds.
mircea_popescu: but then again usg fronts don't need a good plan, they just need A PLAN. something, at all. idiots don't read.
ben_vulpes: isn't the practicality of reorg a function of segwitolade sum?
mircea_popescu: now, if this is the plan it's not a very good one (you can bury a segwit tx into legitimate spending which is deep enough to not be practically reorg-able) but anyway
mircea_popescu: exactly the same play. oh, we "buy" bitcoin crash. if it takes, it's good. if it doesn't take, guess what, segwit unroll later.
asciilifeform: oh the lukejr thing
mircea_popescu: when bitbet blew a ~1k hole through this plan, they paid luke-jr a pittance to falsely claim they had delivered to him.
mircea_popescu: for instance : usg released a convicted felon / ndrngheta man (sony vleisides) for the purpose of pulling a "we build asic miners" scam in bitcoin to buy nsa enough time to make some themselves.
mircea_popescu: summary : he's trying to make sense of the political posturing of fiat entities, arrives at the conclusion that bitmain is buying the worthless clone with bitcoin it intends to doublespend away from the silly buyers later on.
asciilifeform found subj ~unreadable -- on account of the sheer qty of wtf redditolade priors baked in
ben_vulpes: trinque: i wouldn't go so far as to say they pulled it off
ben_vulpes: well if they say it enough and if enough people vote for it surely it will become the new law
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is this supposed to work even.
ben_vulpes: gonna paraphrase here, "we're sure that when the supreme court hears about how our schools are so terribly underfunded they'll reconsider their ruling on the consitutionality of this tax"
ben_vulpes: another funny tidbit is that a) anything other than a flat tax is strictly constitutionally prohibited in washington and b) 33.65.030: "A county, city, or city-county shall not levy a tax on net income."
ben_vulpes: in reading some commentary on seattle's new tax on the rich, i learn that a sales tax is regressive because rich people pay a smaller fraction of their income in taxes than poors
shinohai: iirc they also donated hosting for tardstalk or something like that
asciilifeform: the screamingly obvious?
mircea_popescu: aaand in other tor lulz, guess what is "privateinternetaccess.com", other than of course the "partner" of pretty much every irc network out there, from freenode to snoonet.
mircea_popescu: but, in other applied twistodynamics, http://68.media.tumblr.com/b1e02708882870196734c8aac584355c/tumblr_o2hw1bq7fh1uwcsj1o1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: few of the wrecked are willing to realize the root of their distress << the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making sliding in easy to do and pulling out easy to forget.
ben_vulpes: and you know, "if i ain't fuckin you, i ain't fixin your head neither"
ben_vulpes: for all the inca-wreckage in my life, few of the wrecked are willing to realize the root of their distress.
BingoBoingo: Maybe spend a bit of time with some people who've been wrecked by Inca, want better for the puppies?
BingoBoingo: Now that's gotta drain the venom. Why are you bothering with productivity worries? First things first!
BingoBoingo: home orifice consists of putting desk next to bed. One is for writing, other for sleeping, both useful furniture for fucking guests.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i appreciate the exhortation
ben_vulpes: while i'm on the topic, can confirm that 'modern' asdf is all sorts of royal pita as well, although that thread has been well hashed in the logs
a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 15:18 phf: for the longest time i thought that common lisp spec is a magic paper against modernization. not so, and you can see it with the recent evolution of sbcl. for example they made it an error to locally shadow cl package symbols, e.g. (flet ((first (...))) ...) will fail, breaking a lot of reasonable old code. many historic idioms likewise produce compilation warnings, etc.
asciilifeform: ( iirc nixon was the last )
mircea_popescu: which i expect they did do.
mircea_popescu: could "glaze" by arranging them
asciilifeform: which afaik is what the 'fed au is tungstentronic' thing is really about
asciilifeform: gravimeter's the only thing that'd give actual idea of the mass, rather than volume, of the pile.
mircea_popescu: anyway! rather than bickering over the obviously rhetorics involved, how about we in general agree that such a huge mass of a rare atom is eminently detectable and thassat.
asciilifeform: but lacking the actual magic nums ( asciilifeform is still at beachhouse, lol ) i'ma have to leave it at 'maybe works from 40m!'
asciilifeform: the backscatter gotta come back tho
mircea_popescu: i dun have the datasheets to give better numbers with, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: basically, a high energy xray will lose 2/3 of its energy every dozen or so meters. whatever's left illuminates the gold (there's no crossing gold, too large barn), and then gets sent back, as gold-xray-pink
mircea_popescu: the threshold for detectability is below 1kev (review your pll discussion to see why it goes way below "base").
mircea_popescu: and soil is no pb. and it's not "gone", it's 1/e'd. the remainder can... 1/e again. and so on.
mircea_popescu: how about you know, 20MeV if we're bothering at all ?
asciilifeform: show me the particle ? e.g., x kEv gamma. which is it.
mircea_popescu: there is no "even".
asciilifeform: show me the magic particle that has infinite free path even in air, much less earth, cement
mircea_popescu: there's no even here. different emission profile entirely.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the whole point was that such a large agglomeration of single-atom rare element is eminently detectable. it is.
asciilifeform: that was the hope aha
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know this field has advanced significantly ? they have all sorts of phase-velocity abusing composites and so on.
asciilifeform: ( sdi sank from, among other lulz, failure to discover a practical xray laser )
mircea_popescu: if you put an x-ray lamp on gold, and then turn it off, you will see some radiation back, and on specific frequency
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes dude. let's redo the sentence : "gold / other heavy metals are sorta fluorescent, let's say, in X-ray illumination"
asciilifeform: so is the neutronograph
mircea_popescu: australia for one. everywhere there's enough gold to be worth it.
asciilifeform: the index won't read by trb.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-11 00:18 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-10#1696875 << it is conceivable you can reuse prb blockchains, if you care. not that there's anything wrong with rechecking the chain if oyu're in no hurry. expect a coupla months tho. and i suppose look into eatblock etc while at it.
asciilifeform: to round off the wtf -- 'beachcomber' inductive 'minesweeper' tops out at 30-40 ~cm~, not m
asciilifeform: ( unless the au-via-neutron bombardment thing were to take off.. )
asciilifeform: the only thing that'd make it 'across river' is gravity , and possibly fast neutrons. which au dun emit.
asciilifeform: none of the other measures work through the door, sadly. even if we were discussing sr-90 rather than au
a111: Logged on 2017-08-11 00:39 mircea_popescu: if you have such a narrow premise ("is there or is there not a terragram of gold at so and so coords") experimental falsification is trivial, and not even expensive in contex. the bitch is forming the premise in the first place.
asciilifeform: cavities (e.g. mines, tunnels) are a different story, the missing soil is quite 'loud' gravimetrically
asciilifeform: and certainly not 'across the river'
asciilifeform: now theoretically you could pick up a cubic few metres of au with... gravimeter. but strictly from, e.g., 1 story up
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu might like to mention the xray background ( wtf? ever consider the self-absorption of an item with density of gold!?) to prospectors
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes gold / other heavy metals are sorta fluorescent, let's say, in X-ray illumination. leaving aside that even amateur beach comber fare on sale for the cost of a lawn mower can see large chunks at 20-30 meters (that's 10 floors or so).
mircea_popescu: if you have such a narrow premise ("is there or is there not a terragram of gold at so and so coords") experimental falsification is trivial, and not even expensive in contex. the bitch is forming the premise in the first place.
mircea_popescu: ultrasound, rad scatter, there's a whole list.
ben_vulpes: in other fuddings, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fed-has-6-200-tons-of-gold-in-a-manhattan-basementor-does-it-1502382644
a111: Logged on 2017-08-10 21:46 edivad: in the case of segwit, this means that trb won't care about segwit blocks and as long as they will complies with the "hard rules" (I really don't know how to explain myself better) they will be accepted?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-10#1696875 << it is conceivable you can reuse prb blockchains, if you care. not that there's anything wrong with rechecking the chain if oyu're in no hurry. expect a coupla months tho. and i suppose look into eatblock etc while at it.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-10 21:35 edivad: i was doing the process in a 8gb container and at a point i wasn't so confortable continuing refreshing df to check my free space
mircea_popescu: in other 15yos, http://68.media.tumblr.com/497c1d85146e70094fa09048951289c9/tumblr_o53tfx15sG1ukw672o1_1280.jpg
trinque: cept that eventually miners will defect from the thing, and steal everyone's segwit "transactions", much to the lul of all.
mod6: edivad: yah, it'll really help you out to read at least 6 months of logs. And if you read more, even better. There's a wealth of knowledge in there.
trinque: edivad: can search the logs first, eh? there's lots in there re: segwit and other failures of folks to diddle the definition of bitcoin
edivad: in the case of segwit, this means that trb won't care about segwit blocks and as long as they will complies with the "hard rules" (I really don't know how to explain myself better) they will be accepted?
mod6: <+trinque> ah well sure, suppose mod6 could mention the build environment is going to be big. << While I'm at it on the updates; i think, let's say, you need a minimum of what? 20Gb ?
mod6: <+edivad> i was doing the process in a 8gb container and at a point i wasn't so confortable continuing refreshing df to check my free space << oh sure. I didn't even think to ask. Next time I will.
mod6: <+edivad> thanks again to all of you that have helped me in the troubleshooting << You're welcome. Very good of you to have such persistence to keep working through the issues.
edivad: 2nd) the second time that i've started TRB, it was complaining that wallet.dat was corrupted (this wallet.dat was generated from latest core, so i suppose is deterministic, is this the reason for being rejected?)
edivad: the 1st) when i started for the first time TRB, he was bitching that myip=something wasn't present on my .conf. Is this a TRB specific requirement?
edivad: other quick questions are rising
edivad: and now is checking every block from the beginning
trinque: ah well sure, suppose mod6 could mention the build environment is going to be big.
edivad: i keep the blockchain stored separatedly
trinque: pittance compared to what you'll need to hold the blockchain, eh?
edivad: i was doing the process in a 8gb container and at a point i wasn't so confortable continuing refreshing df to check my free space
edivad: i think that is important to add to the guide that the average joe will need at least 6 gb of space in his hard disk to be able to compile from scratch TRB
edivad: thanks again to all of you that have helped me in the troubleshooting
asciilifeform: exercise for reader : find the hidden conditionals.
asciilifeform: most don't even bother with this pretense. http://archive.is/GNrtB is a more typical idiocy
asciilifeform: plenty of nonsense claiming to solve these, entire forests annihilated. but EVERYONE pulled the scam described earlier ( memory indexed by secret value )
asciilifeform: while we're on the subj of 'cryptographers' : a constant time gcd is also apparently not known.
asciilifeform: openssl, for instance, features the one with tables
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nobody knows , afaik, a sane algo. not 1 lib implements anything of the kind
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, the guy complains about the modular exponentiation not being constant time. maybe write to him ask where he ever saw a sane algo ?
asciilifeform: forn00bz: an, e.g., rsa modexp, in ffa, must be representable by a long roll of paper, on it are ops for ordinary 4function calculator, with very patient slave. and roll ONLY ROLLS FORWARD and has finite # of instructions on it, known in advance when you decide the ffa width.
mircea_popescu: that's not how the real world works tho!
asciilifeform: ( effect of caching is to make some addrs load, at particular ( or all ) times faster than others. )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the whole fucking point of making a n-dimensional table, be it 1 or whatever else, is to avoid looking at all the cells all the time
asciilifeform: in currently published ffa set, none of the ops do this
mircea_popescu: you don't even have to know it's there, your code with your entire machine could be emulated later (a la bolix on chip say) and you'd suddenly be weak, even if you deliberately included no cache.
mircea_popescu: the bitch with any such approach, as i realised last night. there is NO WAY to protect yourself from downstream cache. no way.
asciilifeform: 'we sprayed perfume over the corpse, it is alive'
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/in-which-noobs-learn-lessons-and-pay-for-the-privilege/ << keiser. whatever happened to him ?
asciilifeform: ( meanwhile from the vintage cryptoidiocies file, http://archives.seul.org/tor/dev/Dec-2014/msg00099.html )
mircea_popescu: what the fuck was that name of that poinless douche with a "tv show" and some "assistant" retarded chick masquerading about being me back in 2014ish ? k something
mircea_popescu: it's always been a major lulz for me that the same idiots howling about "don't reuse addresses -- it makes usg's pretense of defungibilizing bitcoin that less tenable" never happened to ever mention "don't deterministic wallets, it's on the level of cesar cipher homebrew".
edivad: can i read something about lattice? i haven't understood well the message
mircea_popescu: we have some expectations about security, they do not include the self-diddle that is "deterministic signatures", ie, i'll sign with a shitton of mathematically related privkeys.
mircea_popescu: edivad use p.bvulpes.com not pastebin.com thepasteb.in etc.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-10#1696685 << it's cheap in the sense making your shoes by hand is cheap. it can be fun, but that's as far as it goes. leaving aside problems of how much a pair of aluminum, ruby or w/e dice cost (ie, GOOD dice), a throw provides you with a few bit's worth, FG spits out kB's worth per second. on a per-entropy-bit cost, figuring in capital goods, salary for the thrower, etcetera, FG is about 5 de
shinohai: edivad: If it isn't in /usr/share then you may have to grep for it .... tbh I rarely used Ubuntu so
mircea_popescu: mod6 me either. nfi, prolly cuz of ubuntu packaging.
mod6: <+shinohai> mircea_popescu: The cmake in Debian/Ubuntu repositories used to have that pthread bug, first time I built a trb with `V` that happened. << i don't remember ever having this issue fwiw
edivad: so i can change the line that you have posted
mircea_popescu: a ok then.
mircea_popescu: o yeah, recall that ? "reality diverged from comfortable model thereof, but it has been denied with appropriate incantations and can now go back to bed. i wonder what's on tv ?"
hanbot: mircea_popescu : i seem to remember a period in which the .ro line went that you were "illegal", yeah.
mircea_popescu: shinohai consider reporting on their list ? maybe.
shinohai: mircea_popescu: The cmake in Debian/Ubuntu repositories used to have that pthread bug, first time I built a trb with `V` that happened.
mircea_popescu: by now the psychological tension is intolerable though, "what, billionaire ?!?!?! what, tmsr ?!?!" etc. there's that little old jewish mother's voice in the back of their skull, "how come this one could and you can't ?" that's utterly killing them.
mircea_popescu: hanbot heh. i expect it's deeper than that, though. dork is romanian, and that country had a ~50 year period of enforced equality-through-poverty the likes of which the us can only dream of. this has the side benefit of every kid expecting every other kid be you know, a goat of ~same size. maybe this other guy has a slightly newer car, that's the accepteable limit of it.
hanbot: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-10#1696464 << primo dunning-kruger this morning. no awareness of logs, doesn't keep him from expecting the chicken coop chatter of "things are happening!" at expected rate.
edivad: going to do the third clean run, since i have generated the locale in the middle of the process
a111: Logged on 2017-08-10 18:19 shinohai: No in the file CheckIncludeFiles under your cmake installation
a111: Logged on 2017-08-10 15:31 mod6: Hi, I've updated the howto, it's not "finalized" yet. Please take a look and let me know if this doesn't read quite right, or if I've left something out:
hanbot: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-10#1696608 << looks crisp, though imho "To build TRB, you are going to need some basic requirements on your system environment." is spurious unless said requirements are specified...the next line about packages and list of same seem sufficient.
mircea_popescu: a deterministic wallet can have its uses, but they typically aren't "user trying to cheat on running a node".
edivad: mod6: auto-solved the last problem with sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
asciilifeform: keep in mind that forgetting your 'alphabet' is just as good as forgetting the key
edivad: at these times porn industry should have generated enough pornstar name entropy
edivad: do you mean with paper and pencil, and then storing the paper in some hole very distant from NSA eyes? mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: edivad: ever read about mnemonists ? the stage magicians.
edivad: in some random words that can be converted into the 64 hex original key
edivad: since i'm not yet capable to remember my 64 characters hex private key, there is a way to convert it in a seed without decreasing the security, and maybe being able to memorize it?
mircea_popescu: yes. there's isn't, nor is there going to be a way, manner, instrument or device through which to protect the passive from the active.
edivad: that's quite sad, but there's nothing that will stop this general trend
mircea_popescu: edivad the public wants entertainment not education.
asciilifeform: and not simply 'reducing entropy', but introducing a relationship between all of them
a111: Logged on 2017-08-10 15:39 mod6: But wouldn't be a bad idea to throw it on there in the case where someone, decides to use the linked vdiff script, which uses diff.
edivad: using deterministic shit, I'm reducing the entropy of my keys, correct?
a111: Logged on 2016-02-04 01:12 asciilifeform: why the FUCK would i
edivad: > the state-of-the-art among thinking folk is that pre-generated tx are stored on paper and fed into a hot node when necessary
edivad: ok going to check the results
edivad: because you know, with a bip 44 compliant seed, you then generate your extended public key, and you can leave your dice in the drawer
edivad: so, back to the question, is the fuckgoats device meant to be, for instance, if i run a bitcoin service that constantly need to generate private keys, let's say, for example, for an hot wallet?
mod6: ok, that /is/ a bit less steps, so a decent place to start until you get the hang of the process.
mod6: edivad: are you doing the online or offline build?
edivad: that maybe someone can answer later and i will check on the logs
edivad: is now downloading again boost, meanwhile i would like to ask some questions about the fuckgoats device
edivad: i'm gonna leave the actual dir for future forensics analysis when i'll be moar expert and now i'm going to create another one
mod6: i would blow everything away and start over following exact instructions in the howto
asciilifeform: ( it failed, and from the posted barf it is not possible to yet say why )
edivad: can i keep the .wot folder?
edivad: this is the main
asciilifeform: other one
edivad: under src or the main?
shinohai: No in the file CheckIncludeFiles under your cmake installation
edivad: into the makefile.unix under src?
shinohai: Find the line: `CMAKE_CONFIGURABLE_FILE_CONTENT}\n\nint main(){return 0;}\n")` and put `void` in the parentheses after int main()
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
edivad: :) please tell me that the solution is right around the corner, like adding a CC=/path/to/something into the makefile
edivad: but i really cannot figure out what i could try before running again the make command
edivad: so, this is the last error mod6
edivad: i feel that i'm very near of a succesful compiling of bitcoind, especially after the update of the guide
edivad: i promise that this will be the last emergency troubleshooting about TRB
mod6: alright, I have published those changes to : http://thebitcoin.foundation/trb-howto.html
mod6: Updated the formatting too.
mod6: But wouldn't be a bad idea to throw it on there in the case where someone, decides to use the linked vdiff script, which uses diff.
mod6: my V doesn't use diff anyway, only patch, gpg, sha512sum, and wget -- and otherwise just standard shell tools such as echo, mkdir, rm, cat, etc.
mod6: maybe i aught to add 'diff' on that list. it is inexplicable to me that it wouldn't be there, but then again, lol.
mod6: Hi, I've updated the howto, it's not "finalized" yet. Please take a look and let me know if this doesn't read quite right, or if I've left something out:
PeterL: oh, and I was trying to make the functions more general, avoid putting in magic numbers as much as possible
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 12:32 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform since we're on this btw, the way i want tmsr-rsa key generation to work is as follows : a contains a number of entropy bytes specified by user in tmsr-rsa.conf read whenever tmsr-rsa.conf specifies (such as urandom); b contains a base-tmsr string specified by user. c = base-tmsr(a).b ; p = nextprime(cut(sha512(c),257)) ; process is repeated for q = nextprime (cut(sha512(c'),258));
mircea_popescu: PeterL + padlen = min(keya.l, keyb.l) - 1 # make sure that the strings will not overflow the key mods << i don't get it, why do you have variable length keys ?
mircea_popescu: (and in any case, this is also a major improvement over gpg, which realloy only uses 2^16, and worked ok in the field for many years)
mircea_popescu: a cheap improvement would be to write down also the LZW compression ratio.
mircea_popescu: are you trying to say that since there's only 2^32 possible values for the crc, it then follows that 1 in 4bn will match ?