ttybird2

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by ttybird2 5y ago
God save the queen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29508528
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by ttybird2 5y ago
So you are fine with curve25519 and chacha20, just not in "professional" tools like wireguard and tls, right?
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by ttybird2 5y ago
Why go with FIPS approved algorithms though? Why not curve25519 which is easier to implement in a safe way compared to rsa or other curves? "If I had to choose one key size, AES192 comes off as the best compromise between speed and se
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by ttybird2 5y ago
You posted what you would use but did not justify it. Why not ECC? Why not AES256? Why not SHA512? Is truncating it that hard? What mode of operation? People are very opinioned about cryptographic algorithms but more often than not they ten
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by ttybird2 5y ago
Fair enough, but I still think that we should not :)
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by ttybird2 5y ago
"I can't prove it." I would suggest not using slurs and claim that people who think otherwise are schizophrenic then. "But Intel has gone on record stating there is no backdoor" It would not be much of a backdoo
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by ttybird2 5y ago
"Intel's processor's ME does not have a backdoor" Can you prove it? It would at least raise confidence if * It was open source. * It could be disabled. * NSA hadn't requested from intel for their own undocumented
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by ttybird2 5y ago
"Because you refuse to understand that we only want suspect communications, not all of them" Yet you are endangering all of the communications, not only the suspect ones. Kinda like having a mandatory camera in every home and pr
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by ttybird2 5y ago
Sounds like a backdoor to me though.
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by ttybird2 5y ago
"That is not a technical explanation." Technical or not it does not matter. It is clear and specific. If you encrypt the messages for someone else too (or if you leak the keys) it is not end-to-end encrypted. "and at the s
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by ttybird2 5y ago
"The majority" doesn't want exactly the same things, they agreed on some thing or two that was prioritary and deserved the vote." I agree, so I presume that you retract the following?: "A democratic state is elect
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by ttybird2 5y ago
The keys themselves were leaked. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29011537
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by ttybird2 5y ago
I never said that it was against encryption in general. Only that it was against end-to-end encryption.
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by ttybird2 5y ago
We talked about this already https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29639005
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by ttybird2 5y ago
"A democratic state is elected by the majority, as such, the state should share the same definition as the majority." Despite that * They often don't do what the majority wants or is best for them. * In most european states
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by ttybird2 5y ago
"The idea is not to have a camera in everyone's home" The funny thing is that this is basically what this and any other anti-e2ee regulation is about. "If you take drugs at your home and don't cause any incident,
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by ttybird2 5y ago
This: "> the proposed passage that would have forced companies to decrypt encrypted data upon request by the authorities"
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by ttybird2 5y ago
"Why would you be arrested for taking drugs?" Because it's illegal? "The "think of the children" argument is based on personal experience, mind you, I sincerely hope for you that you will never understand th
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by ttybird2 5y ago
More like they ignore dangerous criminals in order to focus on inconvenient "honest" citizens.
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by ttybird2 5y ago
"evidence is encrypted running around in the same streets as your children?" What?
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by ttybird2 5y ago
"We should be striving for designing cryptographic systems which allow for governments to be conditionally able to decrypt messages." No, we really shouldn't.
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by ttybird2 5y ago
Isn't this what happened with some european "digital covid certificates"? Not really unlikely.
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by ttybird2 5y ago
It is outlawing end-to-end encryption instead.
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by ttybird2 5y ago
"Basically, "the victims don't matter as long as I'm fine"." The victims here are these that get arrested for the victimless crime of taking drugs. A society is less secure if anyone who takes drugs runs the
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by ttybird2 5y ago
https://www.pcg-random.org/ PCG's statistical quality is "excellent" but chacha20's just "good"?
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by ttybird2 5y ago
Atom feeds obviously.
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by ttybird2 5y ago
"If only we could all flee when faced with consequences for breaking laws that we disagree with." These who can flee the overreach of foregin countries trying to enforce their unjust laws on them, do so. "versus damaging to t
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by ttybird2 5y ago
I am a non-native english speaker typing on a phone without a spellchecher. I also have dislexia. If you have some specific complaints then please do point them out, I would love to improve. I am not sure why you think that this is the case
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by ttybird2 5y ago
"However, I do not agree that a “journalist” should be able to enable espionage" "Espionage" like publishing warcrimes. "I consider setting up a website purely designed to encourage leaking of potentially classif