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02:59 feedbot http://trinque.org/2019/12/29/a-republican-os-part-2/ << trinque -- A Republican OS - Part 2
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16:44 asciilifeform shinohai: yer bot dun know how to reconnect, does it
16:46 shinohai Yup, I was doing a few tweaks to it early this morning and eschewed having it auto-rejoin your chan to avoid spam.
16:47 asciilifeform shinohai: y'know it's entirely ok to genesis a '90% worx' proggy. ( i did, and on >1 occasion )
16:54 shinohai nb, just lots of pots on the stove atm and I want to decide *which* parts to publish.
17:00 shinohai First order of business is to publish post on esthlos-v before anything, since gonna be using that as my primary vtron moving forward.
17:02 asciilifeform shinohai: for my part i've a draft of ffa-powered verifier for legacy gpg sigs (presently, only detached sigs, as used in vtrons) but also needs moar massage before posting ( and in particular, human-readable explanation of how sawed apart the format, the published docs were of ~0 help, had to vivisect the koch turd)
17:05 shinohai Oh neato! Look forward to it. My estlos-v thing isn't nearly as exciting, simple modification of Makefile to build the keccak bits at same time as presser, and install 'em all. (Temporarily added phf's vdiff.sh as well until I come up with solution for that.)
17:07 asciilifeform shinohai: realized the need for this while attempting this earlier item -- apparently gpg 1.4 has known (but afaik not fixed) cpu wedge attacks via crafted input turds (and some unknown # of unknown... massive ball o'shit) and really not suitable for 'anyone can feed' www system
17:07 snsabot Logged on 2019-12-06 15:25:23 asciilifeform: diana_coman: i'd rather prefer one where patch viewer and folx can upload sigs which then go where ought to
17:08 asciilifeform koch's liquishit is at any rate looong 'past its sell-by date'.
17:11 shinohai Will gladly modify cl-v to use this mechanism when battle-tested, etc. (As was mentioned previously, the verify portions are just gpg callouts, so should be trivial to implement).
17:12 asciilifeform shinohai: since already 'spoilered' this item -- also dispensing w/ the 'subkeys' nonsense. to verify against legacy gpg pubkey, the latter 1st gets sliced into however many public moduli in there, and operator henceforth responsible for invoking against the right one
17:13 asciilifeform none of the garbage w/ 'expirations', 'revocations', etc. is carried over, either.
17:15 shinohai I never could truly wrap head around the subkeys thing, or why one would want a key to "expire". Perhaps smarter folx than I know answer to this.
17:15 asciilifeform shinohai: the pgp format was, by all indications, designed by same sorta nsa stooges as erry other period atrocity (e.g. 'ipsec', 'ssl', etc)
17:16 asciilifeform was made specifically to be a) maximally difficult to implement b) provide minefield of 'null cipher toggles' c) ensure that any half-conformant implementation is multi-megabyte of ???
17:19 asciilifeform so, i've no intention of supporting ~any~ part of rfc4880 except as required to process e.g. this example .
17:20 asciilifeform i.e. signatures made via gpg 1.4.10 , set to max supported hash (sha512) on 2048...8192b rsa keys, specifically, supported. anyffing else can go pound sand.
17:21 shinohai As far as creating a "public" rsa key, just have to have ffa calculate your "N" and "E" neh?
17:21 asciilifeform shinohai: current ffa/peh lacks hashing so cannot yet advertise 'replace gpg universally'
17:22 asciilifeform ( need hashing for (utterly retarded terminology, but...) 'padding' )
17:26 shinohai Ah I just saw this in above comments: "the operator is responsible for padding and otherwise preprocessing his payloads as he sees fit, using external tools."
17:26 asciilifeform but even after 100% replacement, will still need to eat old-style (both old, and sometimes 'from other side of berlin') sigs
17:26 * shinohai is currently swallowing Ch.5 has not advanced to 6 yet.
17:27 asciilifeform shinohai: initially i wasn't even gonna include hashing at all. but realized that there's very little practically-useful crypto that doesn't call for hash at some point
17:27 asciilifeform and ~0 in the way of usable external tooling. so it'll have to be in.
17:29 asciilifeform shinohai: i saw that you've eaten ch4 btw.
17:32 shinohai Yup, finally got sig posted up to www and your comments. (Holiday madness had eaten a lot of time)
17:33 asciilifeform shinohai: had any headaches in 1--4 ?
17:34 shinohai Not yet, the ch.4 puzzle was a head-scratcher though in quite a fun way.
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18:28 asciilifeform !q seen-anywhere mike_c
18:28 snsabot mike_c last seen in #asciilifeform on 2019-12-27 03:58:15: i have much more reading to do.. thanks for the links ascii.
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21:20 feedbot http://qntra.net/2019/12/armed-texan-kills-would-be-mass-shooter-in-church-new-york-incident-ends-differently/ << Qntra -- Armed Texan Kills Would Be Mass Shooter In Church, New York Incident Ends Differently
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