IBM OpenPOWER9 CPU [re: Closed Intel / AMD Firmware]

[grarpamp]

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Steven Schear  wrote:
> Why not switch to much more open CPUs (e.g. POWER8/9) which are already
> comparable to much of Intel's higher end server chips.

Power8 is an intermediate generation now on phaseout, where
Power9 seems more part of a fuller openpower initiative that might
stand up to Intel / AMD. The entire early 9 production output was
being vacuumed up by military / big data / compute, and retail is
taking a while to evolve. It's good stuff however power is still an
expensive platform for non enterprise end users to just buy
casually, and to pay electric on, but the openness might win.
Power9 scaleout SO is rather less than scaleup SU versions.

If you want me to switch and get in the game early, perhaps
with review coinmining and shell ftw, you know what to do... ;)
BTC:1CQYSaF8Cqx5ZSgaKG9LE8UrEJAkWqFpLa

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPOWER_Foundation
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12351319
https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/04/06/inside-future-google-rackspace-power9-system/
https://blog.rackspace.com/the-latest-zaius-barreleye-g2-open-compute-openpower-server
https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/09/19/power9-rollout-begins-summit-sierra/
https://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/07/15/open-sourced-bios-helps-power8-compete-x86/
http://www.theplatform.net/2015/03/23/inside-the-rackspace-openpower-megaserver/
https://www.servethehome.com/?s=openpower
https://www.anandtech.com/SearchResults?q=openpower
http://www.storagereview.com/search/node/openpower
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=power9=byDate=0=all=story

https://raptorcs.com/TALOSII/
https://raptorcs.com/content/base/faq.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14956257
http://tyan.com/campaign/OpenPOWER/

https://github.com/open-power
https://github.com/openbmc

https://wiki.freebsd.org/POWER8
https://www.freebsdnews.com/2015/03/04/freebsd-power8-its-alive-2/
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision=279189
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.html#FreeBSD-on-POWER8
https://reviews.freebsd.org/search/query/oIdoWWKTe71p/

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Linux-4.8-More-POWER9
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Power-Changes-Linux-4.12
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Raptor-Talos-2-Teaser
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Talos-2-POWER9-Pre-Order
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Talos-2-FSF-RYF-Possible

http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/only-a-short-time-left-to-pre-order-the-talos-ii-pre-orders-end-september-15th

Minimum to boot and scale cost users roughly $3300 incl 2x cpu, ps, 32gb.

FreeBSD 2017Q2 Report

[grarpamp]

https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.html

Re: Anarchist AI: The Last Invention Of Man

[grarpamp]

bullshit ;)

Re: Anarchist AI: The Last Invention Of Man

[juan]

On Sun, 8 Oct 2017 01:31:01 -0400
grarpamp  wrote:

> "What was less obvious was the underlying goal: to erode all previous
> power structures in the world. Items 2–6 eroded state power"
> 

I don't know what you are talking about and you don't either. 

State power isn't eroded by artificial stupidity, also known as
AI.  On the contrary, it is greatly enhanced. 


> Would be eroders are rarely disinterested.
> Don't miss it among the bullshit.

if you have something coherent to say, go ahead. If, on the
other hand, you just copy-paste bullshit...

Huxley on Soma

[juan]

"Most highly publicized of these [new drugs] are the three new
tranquillizers, reserpine, chlorpromazine and meprobamate.

None of these drugs is perfectly harmless; but their cost, in terms of
physical health and mental efficiency, is extraordinarily low. In a
world where nobody gets anything for nothing tranquillizers offer a
great deal for very little. Miltown and chlorpromazine are not yet
soma; but they come fairly near to being one of the aspects of that
mythical drug. 

A more promising candidate for the role of soma in its third aspect is
Iproniazid

Still more promising, according to a distinguished pharmacologist of my
acquaintance, is a new compound, still in the testing stage, to be
known as Deaner" 



We see then that, though soma does not yet exist (and will probably
never exist), fairly good substitutes for the various aspects of soma
have already been discovered. There are now physiologically cheap
tranquillizers, physiologically cheap vision-producers and
physiologically cheap stimulants"

Re: Bypassing Intel Boot Guard, EdDSA

[Steven Schear]

Why not switch to much more open CPUs (e.g. POWER8/9) which are already
comparable to much of Intel's higher end server chips.

Warrant Canary creator

On Oct 8, 2017 9:24 AM, "grarpamp"  wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 5:14 AM, George Violaris
>  wrote:
> > This is exceptional work, I am looking forward to loading it on Arduino.
> Did
> > you use a specific Arduino image by the way?
>
> Not my work.
> Go to the authors of the paper / project on their page and ask them.
>

Re: Bypassing Intel Boot Guard, EdDSA

[grarpamp]

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 5:14 AM, George Violaris
 wrote:
> This is exceptional work, I am looking forward to loading it on Arduino. Did
> you use a specific Arduino image by the way?

Not my work.
Go to the authors of the paper / project on their page and ask them.

Re: Cryptocurrency Privacy: Evolving... Zerocash (ZEC, ZCL, ZEN) vs All Other Coin

[George Violaris]

On 10/7/2017 8:20 AM, James A. Donald wrote:
Scaling, however, is the hard problem.  Making enormous amounts of 
storage actually useful and effective is the problem.  The amount of 
storage per client is absolutely insignificant.  The amount of 
bandwidth per client is absolutely insignificant.  Having a useful 
connection between enormous numbers of clients and enormous amounts of 
storage is the hard part.


I believe you were the first person to actually point this out to 
Satoshi. He replied by saying that 100GB per day is required to be 
processed every day by full nodes. 
(https://marc.info/?l=cryptography=122567739309991=1)


However I am confused by his explanation of server farms. Wouldn't at 
one point result to a small number of full nodes due to costs? Isn't 
that preventive of decentralization? I fail to understand how Satoshi 
would think that the entire world can connect to let's say 50 worldwide 
server farms and this would somehow scale and be considered 
decentralized. The point of decentralization is that everyone can verify 
all transactions. This is done by verifying each transaction against all 
transactions back to genesis by yourself, not by trusting 50 centralized 
nodes.


For all we can know, in 20 years from now only banking institutions will 
have the capital and benefit of running full nodes.


./gv

Timelock encryption

[George Violaris]

Some interesting reading regarding timelock encryption. Given crypto 
breakthroughs through cryptocurrency and smart contracts, it is 
interesting to be able to apply such techniques in fields such as 
insurance, bonds, trading, etc.


The big issue up to now with these is that a trusted third party, e.g, a 
server, was required to keep track. However now with bitcoin and 
blockchain technologies, this kind of research is starting to change.


-

Gwern.net - Self-Decrypting Files: 
https://www.gwern.net/Self-decrypting-files


Rabin & Thorpe - Time-Lapse Cryptogrpahy: 
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cat/tlc.pdf / 
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cat/papers/tlc-poster.pdf


Tibor Jager - How to Build Time-Lock Encryption: 
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/478


Jia Liu and Saqib A. Kakvi and Bogdan Warinschi - Extractable Witness 
Encryption and Timed-Release Encryption from Bitcoin


./gv

Re: Bypassing Intel Boot Guard, EdDSA

[George Violaris]

On 10/8/2017 4:20 AM, grarpamp wrote:

How to defeat Ed25519 and EdDSA using faults
This work was performed with my colleague Sylvain Pelissier, we
demonstrated that the EdDSA signature scheme is vulnerable to single
fault attacks, and mounted such an attack against the Ed25519 scheme
running on an Arduino Nano board. We presented a paper on the topic at
FDTC 2017, last week in Taipei.


https://www.openbsd.org/62.html
Release iminent.


This is exceptional work, I am looking forward to loading it on Arduino. 
Did you use a specific Arduino image by the way?

Re: Audio wcn interview

[grarpamp]

I'm sure you mean this one instead...
https://soundcloud.com/worldcryptonet/interview-with-jim-bell-author-of-assassination-politics

Amir Taaki @HCPP2017 Hackers Congress Parallel Polis 2017

[grarpamp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1MpJO-vlF8

https://www.coindesk.com/radical-academy-amir-taakis-new-hacker-team-spreading-bitcoin-syria/