Re: Reminder of the NAP principle
On 2021-12-15, professor rat wrote: The NAP principle is one of the core beliefs nurtured on this site from its early primitive ancap beginnings in the primeval swamp. It was never just ancap. It was my kind of classical liberalism as well. As far as it was about outright politics at *all*. Cypherpunks write code. Where is *your* code? The only reason *I'm* allowed to speak here at *all*, is that I've presented certain coding *ideas*. Where are yours? -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
Re: 1984: Thread
On 2021-11-15, grarpamp wrote: Mass Social Control "Certainly On My Mind" - NY Gov. I believe cypherpunks write code. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
Re: Cypherpunks Vs Marxism. There can be only one.
On 2021-11-15, professor rat wrote: 1840-s Marx - Gertrude Himmelfarb argued that it cannot be denied that in his essay On the Jewish Question, Marx expressed views that “were part of the classic repertoire of anti-Semitism.” Paul Johnson has argued that “The second part of Marx’s essay is almost a classic anti-Semitic tract, based upon a fantasied Jewish archetype and a conspiracy to corrupt the world.” 1850's Marx - This sounds like Planet Choate. I don't think you should reside there, at this age and sound. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
Re: INFLUENCERS WHO OWN PUNKS
On 2021-11-30, professor rat wrote: https://www.benzinga.com/money/cryptopunks-watchlist-celebrities-and-influencers-who-own-punks/ Cease to post this sort of content. It's spam. I don't know why it is, but it's been caught in my filter, so it must be chaff. Cypherpunks fight spam by a spam filter, of course, but they don't originate it in good faith. And we try to be good netizens, as as for not of any of our filters to unduly trip. Your post tripped mine. Don't do it again. Don't become my known enemy. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
Re: Defragging Crypto
7On 2021-11-11, professor rat wrote: While too much is being asked of the term " Crypto ", its politics are becoming more of an issue since its economic reach and power keeps rapidly increasing. Which reach or power, precisely? I don't think it has much, even now. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
Re: cyber-libertarians or crypto-anarchists
On 2021-11-11, professor rat wrote: Choose one https://www.coindesk.com/learn/2021/11/10/bitcoin-politics-from-left-to-right-and-off-the-map/ I never invest in a bubble. No matter how rational it might be. ...till it becomes a stable currency, whereupon it's not an investment, but a more or less stable means of preserving value. Them Coins aren't there yet. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
about physical watermarking, redux
Many years ago I posted an idea of mine about cryptographic physical watermarking of things, such as paper money, or maybe missiles. Whatnot. The idea was that you'd do some chaotic physical process in order to lay down a physical watermark, then image it, and finally digitally sign what was seen via asymmmetric cryptography. I imagined you'd then print the signature "on the bill" as a 2D barcode, to be verified. But I never worked out how you would deal with the inevitable "broken bill". I thought it'd take some kind of high end error correcting code. Now it finally came to me you don't need that at all. Instead, just repeat what you imaged from the bill, on the bill, verbatim, using whatever level of ECC you want, and then the signature. The verifier can utilize the digital, error corrected replica for hard crypto purposes, while separately verifying that it matches -- in any soft statistical knee -- a hard to mechanically replicate, unique signature, embedded in the "bill". My first and best idea about how to make this physical nonce is to mix a couple of dozen well cut differently fluorescent plastic fibers into the paper or plastic fiber pulp from which the bill/artifact is made. It would be rather difficult to replicate such a random arrangement of many fibers over, say, a 1200dpi scanned bill. Especially if the highest end scanner interferometrically made sure, that the fibers/chaff really are embedded in the paper, instead of having been printed on it. Any problems with my idea? I'd like to hear, especially since it has been a couple of decades coming. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
Re: I listen to Punk-stasi when he tells us he loves pentagon-JEW-Jacob-Appelbaum
On 2020-12-13, professor rat wrote: Big mouth, deep arse, Batshit Crazy, must be listened to by every self-respecting Nazi when he tells them how much he wants to 'help ' pentagon-JEW - Jacob Appelbaum. He might be a she and they might start breeding more Jews. We have to nip this miscegenation in the bud. It's not cypher*punk*, fella. It's *cypher*punk. Please behave and produce some workable code before coming back. At least that's why I keep my head down; if you have nothing to contribute, just shut the fuck up. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
Re: Hyperspectral Imaging
On 2019-01-27, grarpamp wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspectral_imaging So? -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3255353, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
Re: The world's most secure password for websites, games and private data.
The one password they could never divine is \epsilon\epsilon. Two empty strings in a row. Now I can see how some of you might object that it's then just one empty string in whole. I disagree: whoever told you passwords have to obey normal monoidal string axioms? Quite certainly arbitrary amounts of non-visible, un-greppable, in-representable void between and on characters *will* prove an un-stoppable counter-measure. https://xkcd.com/936/ Truth be told, every *nix installation really should have available 1) a commonly available dictionary, 2) a true/hard randomness source (don't go there), 3) an easily usable means of combining your own off-the-cuff source of randomness with whatever you get from your hardware, 4) a cryptographically speaking hard mixing function, and 5) a stupid-as-fuck freeware utility to fold all of that into an XKCD-hard password. Preferably the lot residing in its hard parts on your Android device's tamper-resistant whatchamathinga, with open interfaces and a dozen or so independent implementations of each part. Of course you can attack something like that. Duh. But compared to what we have now, it'd be a total hoot. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3255353, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
