one-sided...
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to be secure.
Ooops.
We can attack that classically, so the "theoretically unbreakable
because unclonable quantum cryptography" is just so much eyewash.
Peter Fairbrother
On 06/01/2024 02:00, Karl Semich wrote:
https://medium.com/@kierstenJowett/location-proof-exchange-837fcdc60dbb
Barf.
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are standard
Starlink V2 broadband.
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on Chaum
or developments, or something else.
It is interesting to compare this supposition with the history of TOR...
[1] I put blockchain-based "ecurrencies" in quotes because they could
never be widely used as actual ecurrencies, the technology doesn't scale.
Peter Fairbrother
Like most cypherpunk ideas - bitcoin, TOR, bittorent - it has a fatal
flaw - it doesn't actually work as advertised.
Suppose I am an assassin. I kill the target. How am m I going to get
paid? I don't mean some pseudoanonymous mechanism of payment, but who
decides I get paid?
Who do I compla
code; and remailer
development basically stopped.
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econds, or
50GB per day, per link. Ouch.
Peter Fairbrother
On 05/06/2023 16:35, Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor
of Many wrote:
At one of the PET workshops {these discussed much of the academic
background to the technology behind TOR, Mixminion etc} someone
presented a paper on
at one point most TOR
traffic went through German servers. Bet the BND loved that.
Peter Fairbrother
On 13/01/2023 15:15, professor rat wrote:
Everyone an assassinbird?
https://twitter.com/anilsaidso/status/1611519739813310466/photo/1
But Why?
Peter Fairbrother
On 09/01/2023 06:20, David Barrett wrote:
On Sun, Jan 8, 2023, 7:37 PM Peter Fairbrother <mailto:pe...@tsto.co.uk>> wrote:
There are no widespread supposed-to-be-QR asymmetric algorithms that I
would trust right now.
None of the lattice based approaches? I'm curious wh
n't use it.
There are no widespread supposed-to-be-QR asymmetric algorithms that I
would trust right now.
Bottom line - quantum crypto is the gold standard and the more there is of it
the more cryptoanarchy.
Or more and better normal archic person's crypto? Don't see why it
should particularly be anarchic..?
Peter Fairbrother
so-called quantum break seems to be "academic gibberish".
As does the Schnorr classical sieving algorithm it is based on. Well, at
least the associated complexity analyses of that algorithm. The method
itself works, but apparently with a lot worse complexity than the usual
suspects.
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't reliably anonymous. It wastes
carbon-dioxide producing resources. And it doesn't scale.
It may be a step or two in the right direction, but I don't know enough
about it (and what it may develop into) to say for sure. It has a
loonng way to go though before it gets really good though.
Peter Fairbrother
he wrote extremely good code" of it. It's just he might have done so to
a better purpose.
Plus maybe a little cleverness, but not as much as you might think: eg
he did not invent blockchain or digital currencies or digital wallets.
Though I do wish I had bought some bitcoins early on ...
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Yeah that's Rainbow, one of the NIST round 3 finalist signature schemes.
Not too surprised it was broken, as it uses extension fields which I
have never trusted, they have too much (unused) structure.
Peter Fairbrother
On 26/03/2022 08:21, jim bell wrote:
https://english.elpais.com/sc
sometimes an entire population or species, can die before it happens.
If omicron is as advertised, more transmissible and less lethal, then
indeed we may have gotten lucky. But I'm not counting any chickens just
yet ...
Peter Fairbrother
would drop, probably to about $30k.
Which would place their owner/controller at no 51 on the world's richest
list.
Peter Fairbrother
On 16/10/2021 10:12, Stefan Claas wrote:
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 10:24 AM Peter Fairbrother wrote:
Though there's no such thing as 100% anonymity, security, etc...
there are certainly different comparative magnitudes of it available
today, and higher ones are probably quite achievable
On 16/10/2021 12:00, grarpamp wrote:
On 10/16/21, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
Except the increased bandwidth cost. And if you have to have padding
between each node, or on each link, that becomes very expensive.
...
[whatever FUD's/month]
Again, no, users have already bought whatever speed
On 16/10/2021 06:45, grarpamp wrote:
On 10/15/21, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
Nothing about a base layer of chaff prevents
"low-latency browsing" as an application.
Except the increased bandwidth cost. And if you have to have padding
between each node, or on each link, that be
there was nobody to
develop Mixminion.
:(
Liked the story :)
Peter Fairbrother
On 15/10/2021 19:24, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:
Is that so? Cause if A and B are connected through a 'high speed' fully
padded link, they can replace the 'chaff' with their data at will and with very
'low latency'...
And no anonymity whatsoever.
Peter Fairbrother
resses over "E-Mail" networks,
and should continue to be developed and deployed for that legacy purpose.
But for the general purpose of "messaging" they are largely now rightly
replaced by dedicated p2p message network apps that don't have to
compromise themselves to "E-Mail"s old protocol restrictions and trust model.
I don't know of any strict anonymity p2p apps.
Peter Fairbrother
something; and remember the 6th law:
"Only those you trust can betray you."
Peter Fairbrother
[1] by dedicated I mean you have to use a particular server. If you have
to use any one of several servers it might be OK if you (can) run your
own server. Or it might not. No server is safe
xit nodes.
Against the elephant? Tor's padding is totally useless.
Peter Fairbrother
ical crimes like stalking, and so on.
> What about connection, cell padding? Does it help to reduce the
matching success?
As I have said I'm not totally up-to-date on Tor, but probably not much.
Peter Fairbrother
c warrants (and a warrant for traffic data for a Tor node
would be almost automatically granted anyway)..
Also any traffic which *goes through* the US or UK is traffic-compromised.
Peter Fairbrother
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
On Friday, October 8, 2021 7:35 AM, grarpamp wrote:
How
x27;s first cousin Bill Dunn, and Bill and
Avril looked after EB while he lived on Jura. Dad and EB were friends
long before that though.
And no, I am not English, though I do live in England.
Nor am I a cunt, or a government shill.
Peter Fairbrother
cant difference.
Personally I take vitamin C and D and zinc as possible Covid
prophylaxes. I do not claim they work, though low levels of vitamin D do
seem to make Covid worse and zinc and vit C have well-known if mild
general antiviral properties.
I might take ivermectin on the Hail-Mary i
Sometime later today Covid will kill it's 666,462nd US victim - at which
point it will have killed more Americans than all the combat deaths in
all the wars in US history.
Peter Fairbrother
7;t everything - you might want to use an OTP
then re-encrypt the ciphertext with a block cipher in order to get
non-malleability *and* info theoretic security.
You might also want to use padding for message length concealment. You
might want some form of message authentication..
.. and so on.
Peter Fairbrother
e on
US law extraterritoriality grounds.
Peter Fairbrother
On 07/08/2021 01:06, Karl wrote:
Would make sharing harder, but
Peter Fairbrother
the point of moot is to give the kind of access to crypto protection
that an expert can create to every user.
Hi Peter,
I received your message disordered a little, are you able to rephrase
ring harder, but
Peter Fairbrother
the point of moot is to give the kind of access to crypto protection
that an expert can create to every user.
ple couldn't get such a warrant anyway, it could only be issued to
Police or similar.
Peter Fairbrother
On 07/07/2021 17:31, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
On 07/07/2021 16:58, David Barrett wrote:
It wasn't dropped:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48253343
<https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48253343>
I didn't say it was, but
Yes, the rape investigation was, finally, d
isonment for 50 weeks
for breaking bail which sentence he has served, and he is now detained
but not imprisoned pending appeal on the US extradition charges.
Peter Fairbrother
They did temporarily while he was hiding in the embassy (again, he was
hiding from Sweden, not the US -- Obama didn&#
he has already served his sentence
for breaking bail.
At present he is detained pending an appeal by the US against the
refusal of his extradition. Unsurprisingly he is considered a flight
risk, and has been refused bail.
Peter Fairbrother
ORAM,
is a slippery concept especially when eg the total quantity of data
available to an attacker is open-ended.
Peter Fairbrother
you considered how to do secure deletion? It is very tricky. If an
attacker can see the raw fs in a state which includes a particular file,
and the key is not deleted, then if he gets the undeleted key at any
future time he can read the file.
Peter Fairbrother
tor network. The
'criminal' could also add a layer of unbreakable 'military grade' encryption in
the form of one time pads. After all the 'criminals' are likely to meet in
person and so they don't need piece-of-shit public key crypto.
Wow you know your crypto. Not.
Peter Fairbrother
;SkyEcc" phones sold the phones which were message-security-broken, and
their system is still secure. Doubtful, but not impossible.
One thing (among many) which confuses me about this is that Sky Global
claim they knew about the fake phones for several years - so why did
they still allow the
..
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judicious fishing?
Or did LE set up the service in the first place?
Peter Fairbrother
-cryptographer-len-sassaman-is-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto/
Len was an excellent cryptographer (and a very good friend), but he
couldn't write code like Satoshi.
He was not Satoshi. He would have been amused by the idea that people
thought he was.
Satoshi is - a different chap :)
I am no longer trying to convince anyone of anything, just remembering
those who have died.
Most of us know at least one or two of them by now.
Peter Fairbrother
tps://www.theregister.com/2021/02/11/eu_ad_rules/
Peter Fairbrother
On 01/02/2021 20:56, Lee Clagett wrote:
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
On Sunday, January 31, 2021 7:28 PM, David Barrett
wrote:
GCM?
SIDH?
I haven't read much of this thread.
The main reason for the use of a symmetric cipher is necessary resource
conservation.
Peter Fairbrother
https://xkcd.com/2385/
xkcd has been unusually good recently
n system.
when I am soberer I might explain that, but it is too ugly for now.
Peter Fairbrother
definitions:
[noun] attractive articles of little value or use
[adjective] showy but worthless
Well that's the view from this side of the pond. I liked the white house
poster - "We Voted. You're Fired".
Maybe some Americans are sane.
Peter Fairbrother
[1] it's
On 22/11/2020 17:47, Robert Hettinga wrote:
So, I’m very prepared to believe Sidney Powell.
Trump just "fired" her 'cos he thought she is even madder than him.
Which is saying something.
some time, and preparing for civil war for over a year.
Except I suppose it's not that extraordinary, Trump is well over 50%
fraud anyway.
Fraudulently claiming election fraud is a criminal offense. And it
doesn't seem to be working.
What odds he suicides before February?
Peter Fairbrother
there is
nothing cryptographic about them.
(also I think they are bollocks, and more reminiscent of Archimedes
Plutonium than any kind of "proper" science, but YMMV)
Peter Fairbrother
chance and b) the identical amino acid sequences
also occur in dozens of proteins from other viruses, there is nothing
HIV-specific about them.
The paper was never peer-reviewed, and is now withdrawn - nothing to see
here.
Peter Fairbrother
species,
which tends to increase the mutation rate, statistically speaking, by
changing a bunch of RNA all at once.
That would be fairly normal for viral evolution.
Peter Fairbrother
r me to have to
enumerate them here again.
But these and other now-becoming-mainstream crypto technologies like
Apple's encryption have raised the bar against the creation of a
"Ministry of Truth" where all of everybody's data and conversations are
available to the Ministry.
Actually I suppose it is now more a case of "anybody's" rather than
"everybody's".
Peter Fairbrother
On 14/10/2020 23:59, Karl wrote:
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 6:34 PM Peter Fairbrother wrote:
To put some BOTE numbers on that, suppose you want to provide for 1
million concurrent users. You have about 150 TB per month user traffic
to play with (500 x 1TB, ~3 hops), 150 MB per month
On 15/10/2020 00:30, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 23:33:35 +0100
Peter Fairbrother wrote:
You're bragging about being part of the 'team' of US military scum
responsible for the tor scam. You being an english cunt means you were
the GCHQ 'representa
iangle - you simply can't get
reliably anonymous, low-latency and cheap anonymous web traffic.
You probably can't even get reliably anonymous and low-latency, at any
price.
Peter Fairbrother
[1] Acceptable low latencies vary according to use and user expectations
- fifteen ye
worldwide
On 22/09/2020 20:42, jim bell wrote:
https://www.wired.com/story/operation-disruptor-179-arrested-global-dark-web-takedown/
Piddling numbers. 500kg, M$6.5?
Pfui.
Bigger aggregate busts happen - ?happened? - worldwide pretty much
every day.
It might be less now after people started reali
but the randomised double-blind
test is designed for one purpose, to find the truth and to be sure it is
the truth.
It may be a bit cruel - but it is the only way we know, and perhaps the
only way there is. All modern medicine is based on it.
Peter Fairbrother
and no, I am not going to provid
On 18/09/2020 01:22, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 12:45:36PM +0100, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
On 16/09/2020 21:59, jim bell wrote:
Also, search 'covid ivermectin'
Doesn't seem to work, or at least not very well. Promoted by many of the same
people who promo
ented.
But I thought I'd hold a moment of silence for the 200,000 already dead
in the US, and the million dead globally.
Peter Fairbrother
On Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 04:47:56 AM PDT, Peter Fairbrother
wrote:
On 28/02/2020 22:09, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
> Best data I
On 28/02/2020 22:09, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
Best data I have seen for COVID-19 mortality is from 50 in 10,000 or
0.5% for the young-and-fit to 1,500 in 10,000 or 15% for those over 75
and those with pre-existing heart disease. Diabetes and COPD are also
bad co-morbidities to have, at about
ding was ever used to
backtrack to get other evidence.
Afaict it wasn't a recording, it was call records.
Peter Fairbrother
8% overall, more for some subgroups like
the old, fat or lung-y, less for the young.
And that doesn't include the later deaths due to the long-term organ
damage which occurs in 5-10% of cases.
Just sayin'
Peter Fairbrother
h non-immune members to spread a disease - the
non-immune members could still get the disease, but there isn't anyone
around who's infected to give it to them)
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ically not get the full benefit of a
RAM upgrade going this route.
You could, of course, use 8Gib of RAM as a swap ramdisk ...
I'll get my coat
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It may be, however, that your usage
patterns only max out 16GiB of virtual memory usage either way, in which
case it may not matter as much.
y be seen exactly the same way.
[*] statements which cannot be assigned a true or false value. A bit
like qubits...
Peter Fairbrother
deaths (a medium-bad season): 30,000
US average annual road deaths: 38,000
US coronavirus deaths to date: 90,000
On 7 April coronavirus passed heart disease and became the leading cause
of death in the US.
My best friend's Mom just died of coronavirus. So fuck off with your stu
t
all your base are belong to us
Peter Fairbrother
On 29/03/2020 22:27, Se7en wrote:
This is a message to confirm that my previous PGP key was compromised
and should be considered compromised since its creation one week
ago.
Then either PGP is crap at security, or you are.
Any bets?
Peter F
On 17/03/2020 11:07, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
The bad news: the UK's present policy is still to delay the epidemic
rather than try to stop it, allowing over 60% of the population to catch
the disease at a projected cost of 400,000 UK deaths (UK Government
figures).
Coronavirus: UK ch
Last one, for now.
Please redistribute freely.
Peter Fairbrother
4- The Whole of the Moon
17 March 2020
The good news: the worst-hit (or first hit) countries are now stopping
their coronavirus epidemics.
China has done pretty much stopped their epidemic spreading [1], in
South Korea it
t worked.
There is no obvious downside to doing it.
There is no hard decision to make. There is no Coventry Moment. There
never has been.
Peter Fairbrother
On 15/03/2020 02:46, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH wrote:
The point of government is to prevent crime,
not tragedy.
There I must disagree. The point of government is precisely to prevent
tragedy.
As in protection against invasion by foreign hordes, or for that matter
viruses.
Peter Fairbrother
On 14/03/2020 23:28, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH wrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 7:29 AM Peter Fairbrother wrote:
2- It's an Ill Wind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XRc389TvG8
So now we know: first, that the UK government is actually deliberately
trying to infect over 40 million UK cit
we don't implement strong
confinement and stop the virus in its tracks, rather than letting it
have its way. Unfortunately I don't know what that reason is.
Peter Fairbrother
[1] I calculate around a million deaths, but that is a bit of a
back-of-the envelope calculation based on
On 12/03/2020 23:56, Zig the N.g wrote:
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 09:54:54PM +, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
Please recirculate freely.
Behind the curve. The mathematics of deaths.
The present United Kingdom strategy on COVID-19 was to initially try to
contain the virus with a weak containment
to provide better health care might reduce the death toll to
about a million. Strong confinement now could reduce it to a few thousand.
Peter Fairbrother
lows more treatment per patient, and so on.
People might (!would!) argue the numbers in this post a little, but I
think they are at least roughly correct. The COVID-19 numbers might be a
bit low as it is in many cases still too early to predict the outcome.
Peter Fairbrother
On 22/02/2020 04:37, jim bell wrote:
From Discover on Google
https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-hydrogen-boron-fusion-clean-energy/
Yawn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion
https://www.fusenet.eu/node/575
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je43p4jtumc
in a book, which
probably no-one will ever read, but if they do you may end up using
whatever the final choice is...
Again, thank you all for your help.
;-)
Peter Fairbrother
ot; is too silly.
Any other suggestions? Thanks.
Peter Fairbrother
systems: only people you trust can betray you.
You do know what a blockchain is, don't you? It is a record of past
transactions. In order to find the current state you need to process the
blockchain.
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on't tell
anyone it is broken, so people keep using it. Remember Coventry/Enigma
(which never happened, but it is a good story).
Never Say Anything.
Peter Fairbrother
ew. Who
wasn't a scum-master, except perhaps to the swabbies?
Heck, Roger and Nick were wanna-be-heroes.
Peter Fairbrother
ek of the year (when
lots of the starry-eyed brand new students go to their first and only SU
meeting and vote for almost anything to show solidarity with their new
colleagues).
Yup. That's about the farthest extent of radical student politics at
Oxford. [1]
Btw, "snowflake"
s the
elephant-in-the-room problem - this is not a cipher...
"An important future application the researchers are now working on is
secure transmission of data over a glass fiber."
Indeed.
Peter Fairbrother
On 15/10/2019 07:50, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Joyous news today, folks!
Wonders never cease, and finally we see some REAL democracy in the
EU's Spain, as Catalan leaders are finally dealt justice with harsh
multi year jail sentences - the longest for 13 years.
Having many friends and relatives i
On 11/10/2019 22:05, jim bell wrote:
Somebody asked me a question, but because I am far from being an expert,
I couldn't answer. Suppose a person wanted to implement a TOR node,
simply by buying some box, and plugging it into his modem, and power.
And NOT needing to become an expert on TOR,
On 10/10/2019 01:28, jim bell wrote:
On Wednesday, October 9, 2019, 04:30:50 PM PDT, Peter Fairbrother
Was Trump REQURED to do what he did? No.
Was Trump PROHIBITED to do what he did? I don't think so, either.
I think he was prohibited.
Whether he had good or bad motives, whether
On 10/10/2019 03:10, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
I mean, I read it on the Internet, it simply MUST be true!
Nice to see you shilling for Trump :)
I thought, if anything, I was shilling for Biden...
On 09/10/2019 22:26, jim bell wrote:
On Wednesday, October 9, 2019, 01:52:57 PM PDT, Peter Fairbrother
wrote:
On 09/10/2019 21:02, jim bell wrote:
>> I try to avoid posting "political" issues, or at least initiating them,
>> but Joe Biden just called for Trump t
xit
could then sue Boris, as his action as Prime Minister would not have
been lawful.
What was it Nixon said? "Well, when the President does it, that means
that it is not illegal."
Nope, thankfully it doesn't work like that.
Peter Fairbrother
is no surety of that.
So, basically it's shit.
-- Peter Fairbrother
On 13/05/2019 19:59, \0xDynamite wrote:
If light travels at a. different speed for different colors in order
to account for the rainbow of a prism, how fast is the. speed of light
then? Is there real physics to optics? How can light know what
direction to bend after it leaves the lens?
The sp
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