Apocalyptic: I was about to say that magic int 6364136223846793005 looks dubious in rand_byte_gen but apparently it's used by Knuth in a small artisanal rand generator
Apocalyptic: aha, could have used a small comment line for the unfamiliar reader
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Apocalyptic: "So if it's just for cryptographers, then let it all be done in userspace, and let's not make it easy for GPG, OpenSSL, etc., to all say, "We want TrueRandom(tm); we won't settle for less". they don't even pretend anymore
shinohai: also "compliance with government standards" lol
Apocalyptic: heh, for my defense I searched the log with the paper url
Apocalyptic: while I can see how a proggy like peh could benefit from reading directly fg output, if you want to provide entropy for multiple non-critical programs, having a /dev/random-like pool isn't that wrong imo
Apocalyptic: if you don't trust the os to maintain that pool, wtf are you doing running userland progs in it
snsabot: Logged on 2020-01-21 03:37:03 Apocalyptic: if you don't trust the os to maintain that pool, wtf are you doing running userland progs in it
snsabot: Logged on 2020-01-21 03:36:17 Apocalyptic: while I can see how a proggy like peh could benefit from reading directly fg output, if you want to provide entropy for multiple non-critical programs, having a /dev/random-like pool isn't that wrong imo
mats: asciilifeform: not really, tis an attempt to define terms
mats: in local news, older tw folks and diehard kmt voters are still a bit shellshocked from the whupping they received at the voting booth. given a few months they will understand the power of democratic idealism and hollywood’s cultural gravity on the younger generation, dialed into their toyphones and the internets, melding them into something thats quite a bit more american/japanese than chinese in outlook
mats: oh, i said this already, logbot didnt catch it
mats: anyway, its a good time to rebalance while mainland is still rising, same old story, canto/mando south/north huaren/mainland culture war. other vulns for cn might include usa chokehold on the dollar based financial system, hk may still induce malignant protests in guangdong/the south, and the xinzhuang issue is being used by political opposition to resist chinese influence in places like muslim majority indonesia and
mats: malaysia. central asian states are keeping mum prob bc of the enormous money coming in, but who knows how long that can last
mats: meanwhile i wonder whether this'll be the century when muslims stop fighting each other long enough to choose a strong caliph and reassert themselves in some manner remniscent of the past
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snsabot: Logged on 2020-01-21 04:15:42 mats: asciilifeform: not really, tis an attempt to define terms
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snsabot: (trilema) 2016-10-01 asciilifeform: on the other hand, if tarver - or anybody 'open source has failed!111' else - thinks that i am going to build anything whatsoever on top of his closed turd, he is smoking dope.
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