[Cryptography] World Peace isn't insurmountable

[Ryan Carboni]

What if the world isn't dysfunctional? What if it is so by design? What if
all nonfeasance and misfeasance is really malfeasance? Isn't the difference
between a democracy and a dictatorship a matter of active consent vs
passive consent? If five hundred random people were stuffed into Congress
and made the laws, would they run the country in the same way? Well, I
suppose there are true heroes, like Litt who said that DES couldn't be
cracked, and Clapper, who said a "truth" to Wyden who really should have
known better.


Anything exceptional that I pointed out is a product of pure deduction, a
quality few possess, that the school systems intentionally attempt to
deprive their students of.


To perhaps parody Cloudflare's complaint about ARX-512 making ChaCha20
nearly as fast as AES-NI, clearly Linux's /dev/random/ is not fully
understood and should be avoided. For the entropy estimate only counts the
entropy of individual events, but not the total combinatorial complexity.
Since operating systems have no real time guarantee, and all entropy is a
product of unobserved events, the order in which events occur certainly
adds entropy. Given that combinatorial complexity is not factored in
entropy estimates, the entropy estimate should be considered flawed.

In fact, this combinatorial complexity significantly impacts one's ability
to manipulate the output of the generator without knowing the full state,
and it might be dangerous for /dev/random/ to treat any source of entropy
as 8 bits per byte.

Perhaps only those capable of communicating in pure deduction can only be
trusted by others capable of communicating in the same fashion.

Of course the ability to deduce has long been regarded as the prerequisite
to investigate or understand anything, and is the foundation of all logic
and reason.


In the end though, I must repeat someone else's observation, that Google
could flip a switch, and 7% of all internet traffic will use a new protocol
they devised. I would prefer, in the following order, MitM-vulnerable
cryptography, backdoored forward secret ciphers, and then key length
restrictions. Not... an impossible to design product, with the source code
given to any government (Kaspersky gives their code to the US, IBM gives
their source code to Russia)...
Hmm.

You can make any software licensed under the GPL if you demand it I suppose
(yet it doesn't stop bundling anything with proprietary code). So much
happening right in front of your eyes, I doubt if you object to any of it,
you can possibly stop it.

P.S. To expound upon my previous statement that what one says only has to
be facially true, the argument barely has to justify itself, even using
weak evidence the audience may very well accept what you say as truth. This
makes anything you learn about debating to be a cruel waste of time.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/attachments/20171219/d1f873ce/attachment.html>