#pest | 2023-07-12

asciilifeform: !!ticker btc usd

signpost[asciilifeform]: gox is going to give back about 100k coins to creditors by october too.

signpost[asciilifeform]: might be good eating before next halving.

asciilifeform: hm, weren't the gox payouts denominated in fiatola?

signpost[asciilifeform]: they "found" these coins, lol

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in ye olde #a.

dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2023-07-12 amberglint: asciilifeform: apparently someone imaged an Ivory and promises to post pics soon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36642581

awt_akris[asciilifeform]: jonsykkel: do you know what should be passed as the first argument to serpent_setkey()?

jonsykkel[asciilifeform]: awt_akris: yes, bufer of size 132*4

jonsykkel[asciilifeform]: precalculates some stuf, then taht bufer is passed to the crypter/decrypters

awt_akris[asciilifeform]: jonsykkel: what should be in the buffer - or, what is it used for?

awt_akris[asciilifeform]: no idea what to pass as that buffer from python.

jonsykkel[asciilifeform]: ye dunno ho the pyton stuf works

awt_akris[asciilifeform]: jonsykkel: looks like our clocks are a little out of sync.

jonsykkel[asciilifeform]: ur gonna ned the src/serpent.c also to do cbc

awt_akris[asciilifeform]: I've got a .so compiled that I can load and call serpent_setkey, serpent_block_enc, and serpent_block_dec from.

jonsykkel[asciilifeform]: those only do one 16byte blok tho

jonsykkel[asciilifeform]: need specificly serpent_cbc_ciph/serpent_cbc_deciph

jonsykkel[asciilifeform]: (those in turn call block functions)