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Tue May 17 21:02:58 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> to see how rsa key is generated.
Tue May 17 21:02:53 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> read, e.g., src of gnupg
Tue May 17 21:01:41 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> just as easily
Tue May 17 21:01:39 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> realize that you could deterministically turn the same set of dice tosses into an rsa key
Tue May 17 20:59:26 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> you will do the ecc also in bark ?
Tue May 17 20:58:43 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> on what planet ?!
Tue May 17 20:58:09 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> ('saves bandwidth' is not an argument, we aren't stuck on 300 baud modem)
Tue May 17 20:57:53 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> today, just as decade ago, i see 0 practical arguments in favour of ecc
Tue May 17 20:56:08 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> somehow the fact that nsa did not standardize secp256k1 is thought to argue in its favour, but this is poppycock if you think about it - there is no public info re how broad the class of naturally-occurring weak curve is.
Tue May 17 20:55:14 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> (namely, satoshi's thing is a permanent schelling point and there is no actual choice)
Tue May 17 20:54:56 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> bitcoin users live with ecc largely for the same reason they live with the 1,001 other crocks of shit
Tue May 17 20:54:11 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> possibly decades after the fact.
Tue May 17 20:53:51 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> systems having 'magic numbers', such as ecc, on top of this give you a collective simultaneous fucking of everyone who used a weak magic
Tue May 17 20:52:29 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> but generally every cipher system, symmetric or asymmetric, has a non-null set of 'weak key'
Tue May 17 20:52:03 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> afaik this is unknown.
Tue May 17 20:49:33 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> ( see my old article, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1323 , for some theories re the origin of this custom )
Tue May 17 20:48:27 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> on (until quite recently) paper tape.
Tue May 17 20:48:18 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> they are issued keys by nsa.
Tue May 17 20:48:14 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> phun phakt: u.s. *.mil are not permitted to generate own keys
Tue May 17 20:46:53 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> how?!