awt[asciilifeform]: !!ticker btc usd
deedbot[asciilifeform]: $29,164
awt[asciilifeform]: Processing all decrypted messages on a single thread is the way to go. Otherwise pure chaos.
asciilifeform: !!ticker btc usd
deedbot[asciilifeform]: $30,641
asciilifeform: lolpump ?
awt[asciilifeform]: Good question. Certainly not the margin traders that got wiped out on ftx.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in recent boobytrap lulz.
asciilifeform: ^ reports that found (how? not said) btc signatures where nonce == most signif. 128bit of signer's privkey (gives trivial popping via lattice) ; and 'nearly 90,000 such signatures generated by around 900 addresses'. (all nao empty)
asciilifeform: lulzily, concludes with...
asciilifeform: 'This attack has a simple countermeasure: deterministic ECDSA nonce generation as described in, for example, RFC 6979, which is implemented in the core library for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies.'
asciilifeform: ^ anyffin but trng!111
asciilifeform then looks at author list, and sure enuff, heninger et al.
dulapbot: (trilema) 2015-05-17 decimation: "I don't really know, but I talked to Nadia Heninger about it and she mentioned that they were probably created by some email software only used in Germany. "
dulapbot: (trilema) 2015-05-18 ascii_field: 'It doesn't work when Nadia Heninger goes to sell Phuctor before Stanford - Nadia Heninger doesn't own Phuctor, and the actual owners are very much present and very much capable to bitchslap her into oblivion.' << actually, 'crime pays.' chick gets a phd and cushy sinecure, etc.
asciilifeform: ( or moar recent review thrd covering subj )
dulapbot: (trilema) 2018-05-04 asciilifeform: henninger