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Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] RSA equivalent key length/strength
by Eugen Leitl 22 Sep '13

22 Sep '13

----- Forwarded message from ianG <iang(a)iang.org> ----- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 15:32:42 +0300 From: ianG <iang(a)iang.org> To: cryptography(a)randombit.net Subject: Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] RSA equivalent key length/strength User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 On 19/09/13 00:23 AM, Lucky Green wrote: > According to published reports that I saw, NSA/DoD pays $250M (per > year?) to backdoor cryptographic implementations. I have knowledge of > only one such effort. That effort involved DoD/NSA paying $10M to a > leading cryptographic library provider to both implement and set as > the default the obviously backdoored Dual_EC_DRBG as the default RNG. So, boom. Once the finger is pointed so directly, this came tumbling down within a day or two. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/stop-using-nsa-influence-code-in-ou… http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/the-many-flaws-of-dualecdrb… One mystery is left for me. Why so much? It clearly doesn't cost that much money to implement the DRBG, or if it did, I would have done it for $5m, honest injun! Nor would it cost that to test it nor to deploy it on mass. Documentation, etc. What are we to conclude was the reason for such a high cost? Conscience sedative? Internal payoffs? > This was $10M wasted. While this vendor may have had a dominating > position in the market place before certain patents expired, by the > time DoD/NSA paid the $10M, few customers used that vendor's > cryptographic libraries. Another theory - take a fool's money? And, what happens to RSA now? If this is business-as-usual, does this mean that when the Feds show up to my door with 'a proposal' that I should see the mutual interest in sharing my customer's data with them by means ecliptic & exotic? Take the 30 pieces of silver (adj. for 2000 years of inflation), and be happy they're also keeping my struggling business in the black? Or grey? Or, is it the new Crypto AG? Is RSA the new byword for sellout? Does RSA go out of business? An Arthur Anderson event? In which case I have no choice. I have a reason to preserve the privacy of my customers, and tell the NSA I'm not interested in their cyanide pill patriotism. iang _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5

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Cryptography Inevitable Failure
by John Young 22 Sep '13

22 Sep '13

Nothing more useful for spies than widely trusted cryptosystems. Nor do they ever reveal cracking the highly reputable. Neither confirm nor deny. They do leak vulns, participate in standards settings earnestly and lackadasiacly, fund good and bad research, buy good and bad systems, hire good and bad staff and contractors, engage in open and secret enterprises, issue truthful and false statements, advise and mislead political leaders in public and in secret briefings, claim to obey civilian leaders and disobey them. As Hallam-Baker reported, NSA when confronted with A and B choices, select both. This obligatory duplicity is avowed necessary to conceal what is good and what is bad, both classified for deception. Presumably there is stash of comsec revelations pre-positioned for implementation as needs arise and also when needs do not arise. Duality, duplicity, duping, is the lifeblood and poison of security as well as insecurity, neither ying nor yang can exist without the other. Paranoia sustains information assurance. AES will succumb when the time is ripe for a newborn. Perhaps the time was ripe for Snowden to midwife the inevitable failure of NSA and ilk. Recall NSA's 1997 paper on the inevitable failure of computer security. Imagine a similar one on encryption awaiting disclosure. Imagine what would replace encryption as the duplicitor of choice. Then scale up. Imagine what will replace over-centralized, over-grown, unmanageable NSA and its mushrooming gaga'd critics. Not DIRNSAs retiring to shyster duties, cryptographers gone fat feeding marketable personnas, not Alice, Bob and Chelsea, not NRL-dudes rigging the Tor 3-card monte, not end to end rotted MITM and at both ends, not anything once daring and taunting like cryptoanarchy, not prize winning WikiLeaks and granting EFF, not fleecing fat cats and fans for FOI liberation and forever elusive privacy, not spooning bits of spy feces into yawning mouths of readers. Then scale down to non-secret means and methods accessible to everyone. Even the end of official spying and its inevitable corruption of government by out of control secrecy and dependency upon the toolmakers of secret comsec. But can cryptographers imagine the end of cryptography or are they as bone-headedly duplicitous as those who pay them to promote paranoia, secrecy, distrust and protection. At 09:39 AM 9/22/2013, you wrote: >On 22/09/13 16:05 PM, Ed Stone wrote: >>Why has AES escaped general suspicion? Are we to believe that NIST >>tested, selected, endorsed and promulgated an algorithm that was >>immune to NSA's toolset, without NSA participation and approval? >>NSA involvement in DES is known, but we await cryptanalysis or >>Snowdenesque revelations before having skepticism about AES? > > >NIST didn't really "test, select, endorse and promulgate" the AES >algorithm, and neither did the NSA. > >The process was a competition for open cryptographers, not >agencies. It was done this way because we strongly suspected DES interference. > >Some 30 algorithms were accepted in the first round, and subject to >a year or so worth of scrutiny by the same submitting teams. This >then led to a second round of 5 competitors and another long-ish >period of aggressive scrutiny. The scrutiny was quite fierce >because the reputations of the winners would be made, so the 5 teams >did their darndest to undermine the competition. Many famous names >were hoping for the prize. > >It is the case that NIST (and probably the NSA) selected Rijndael >from the 5 finalists. But they did so on the basis of a lot of >commentary, and all the critics was agreed that all 5 were secure [0]. > >So, claiming that the NSA perverted the AES competition faces a much >higher burden. They would have had to have done these things: > > * pervert some of the early teams, > * pervert the selection process to enable their stooges through, > * and designed something that escaped the aggressive scrutiny > of the losers. > >It's possible, but much harder to get away with. > >In contrast, with the DRBG adventure, NSA designed the process, and >tacked it onto a more internal NIST standards process. Little or >minimal scrutiny from outside, and little or minimal perversion of >outsiders necessary in the standardisation phase (but that did come later). > > > >iang > > > >[0] At the time, myself and my team followed it, and we predicted >that Rijndael would be the winner ... just by reading all the >comments. Note we weren't serious cryptographers, but we provided >the Java framework for the competition, so it was a >_______________________________________________ >cryptography mailing list >cryptography(a)randombit.net >http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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Fwd: Chaos theory
by Collin RM Stocks 22 Sep '13

22 Sep '13

Sorry that this question is only tangentially related to cryptography. Then again, a lot of the stuff here is only tangentially related. Could anybody here link me to some good resources on chaos theory? I'm not looking for anything specifically about certain chaotic systems (like the Lorentz Attractor or Chua's circuit), but instead about general methods to identify and evaluate chaotic systems. Maybe something related to calculating fractional dimensions, &c. This would be a great help. Thanks, // Collin -- VAQIiCiFqqG09YDAYW3rTAUtZqnwNoZkb/ZPm/so4t/CBKQbkMfYL5nujXRI 6+v5Doa2f+X1c9kAUXxElM+B0vrFUCu54tkYyDoi9fzDJB7oLag6Gj+sqoyM kgbVGy3Ej1YnbY/11Rys/WIarJN6CsQCyI3lZPm6a7SgAvAzroSXwH1GkQuS MinnS7/RybV3mKp7fMM0NwWqi6FLkLbjZUKAQC1m7nJHmaApGbu2/YOdFXHJ 3DXmVa2HTtANZEER5tD9W0pYn1gxor98wKY/lkFAy+kCohuZi0bgVgOgRDgg xhRYHAMkmlSyjuK1TRj7e6nuAcvSAVVrAH+n+nSOxA==

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Re: [coreboot] [liberationtech] Fwd: Firefox OS with built in support for OpenPGP encryption
by Eugen Leitl 22 Sep '13

22 Sep '13

----- Forwarded message from David Hendricks <dhendrix(a)google.com> ----- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:07:00 -0700 From: David Hendricks <dhendrix(a)google.com> To: Patrick Georgi <patrick(a)georgi-clan.de> Cc: Coreboot <coreboot(a)coreboot.org> Subject: Re: [coreboot] [liberationtech] Fwd: Firefox OS with built in support for OpenPGP encryption > > Both of these boxes let you reflash your system firmware with your > >> custom build of BSD-licensed TianoCore UEFI. >> > BSD-licensed TianoCore + heaps of binary modules that are currently only > available under NDA. > They'd also require some additional code (probably binary only?) to make > Tiano resembling something like a complete and secure implementation. And as far as FOSS firmware development goes, Gizmo Board ( http://www.gizmosphere.org/why-gizmo/gizmoboard/) is far superior and actually ships with fully functioning open source firmware derived from coreboot. No blobs, no restrictive licensing. > <soapbox> >> There is a large OEM/ODM/IBV/IHV/ISV ecosystem that currently runs the >> hardware, and it is UEFI-centric. IMO, focusing only on fringe >> Lemote/Coreboot technology is not a good bet. >> > coreboot is your only bet on x86 if you aim for open source firmware. It > can be combined with TianoCore to provide the UEFI APIs to the user (read: > Operating System), but TianoCore alone won't do since it lacks hardware > initialization drivers (that coreboot provides). Indeed. TianoCore is not a full firmware implementation -- It usually sits atop a layer cake of non-free / binary components that do the actual work of initializing the hardware. As Patrick points out, Coreboot running with TianoCore on top as a payload can accomplish what you seem to be asking for. There has been substantial work done here already, so if you *really* need UEFI services you can work on polishing it up: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI4ODU -- David Hendricks (dhendrix) Systems Software Engineer, Google Inc. -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot(a)coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5

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[9] patterns and randomness
by brian carroll 22 Sep '13

22 Sep '13

// again, disclaimer: observations of a naive observer... --- on pattern matching --- there is a significant difference between evaluations that search for recognizable patterns and structures based on relativistic pseudo-truth versus empirical models of truth, removed of falsity. in the former, a pattern match thus verifies pT=pT in some way that retains the error rate as part of its structural assumption though likewise could be considered true by default of the match. in this way the [sign] itself becomes the truth, as if the pattern itself is true, an accurate model. it is thus possible for an ungrounded viewpoint to be validated via pattern recognition and *believe* in the legitimacy of the model because it is able to locate and recognize and categorize patterns, validating the approach. that it works confirms that what it is doing is true, as an assumption. statistics and mathematical modeling often can validate this as forms of 'objective reasoning' that are themselves likewise ungrounded, as if an approximate algorithm is by default removed of its estimations or need for ambiguity and via binary 'reason' these inaccuracies can be denied and-or discarded from questioning the approach itself, the error rate relied upon and becoming structural to sustain the viewpoint, functioning as belief. [sign] = [sign] equated with truth the point is that the sign could be ungrounded, weakly or inaccurately modeled, and thus a rounding error or observational bias is involved... [pT.sign] = [T.sign] via pattern match a quick way of saying it is that there is some unaccounted for subjectivity involved (a=b) yet also ignored that presumes A=A is the evaluative result. the issue appears to be that the [sign] itself is arbitrary to an extent, and does not require investigation beyond its context in language for the observation to be considered true- seemingly that a concept represented as a sign effectively is equated with what it is meant to signify, therefore it may not actually have external truth outside of the language system that instead functions as if this truth. the pattern match is with the [sign] that is the word, not what the word references, because the word can be viewed as its truth. that would be a worst-case confusion, lack of rigor to the point that this distinction is not being made, allowing the shallow or weak correlations to exist. at the very least 'computers' could do this, though likely many a person could likewise who does it think it through further or allows ideological presumption to take hold of observation by default of existing structures, without correcting for errors or ambiguity. an empirical evaluation in contrast would secure the [sign] in relation to truth firstly, thus when a pattern is match, this match does accurately correlate with truth, the concept having been removed of known errors. [T.sign] = [T.sign] via pattern match although again it must be said this remains contingent and in a realm of the grey area, within the middle N value (1-N-0) in either a 3-value or N-value paradoxical evaluation, tending towards absolute truth yet bounded by worldly limits to only allow a high percentage or reliability (nine nines) and thus the binary 1/0 instead may function as a sliding scale, in that it may be effectively '1' yet never absolute, always contingent and always returning to a state of perpetual questioning, testing of hypotheses against new evidence and additional structuring. thus a match is still not 'absolute truth' -- instead it is an extreme likelihood and highly weighted toward truth, yet upon further investigation or data could be overturned as an observation if the model is somehow flawed and thus error corrected. in this way a failsafe exists in the observation allowing for correction, whereas a binary model (either/or) would not be able to make this change after having decided its state, or if it did it could break the entire worldview whereas for a paradoxical weighted approach it seems much more likely that a paradigm shift would rearrange or reconfigure the perspective and that it would be possible to do this within a malleable framework that is capable of handling ambiguity, unknowing, multiple hypotheses at once. and perhaps what this indicates is that a [sign] for paradoxical pattern matching may exist in superposition, in various different configurations by this probabilistic weighting, and only over time resolve the overlapping or contrasting dynamics- which then would indicate a field of its inquiry, versus a binary approach that would choose one interpretation over another while discarding its validity within the model, or so it is assumed. and perhaps this last aspect of superposition is a new take on synthesis as it relates to the paradox of theses and antitheses for a given [sign], that logical reasoning mediates this condition via panoptic observation. --- on turning --- this is speculation though i have a strong intuitive sense that forcing a binary ideological structure into a paradoxical condition would in turn double everything that exists in that system, via the new codebase. (?!) another way to say it is that the pT.1 of binary observers would exist in a context of truth (T) of empirical observation and the removal of error will destroy the ideological structure needed to maintain pT.1 as if absolute truth, thus forcing it into recognition as a partial view, pseudo, while incapacitating the false ideological structures that prop up the viewpoint, such as invalid or false assumptions. in its minor state, pT.1 can no longer determine shared truth in the larger empirical context, for others and must submit to the larger interpretive framework and shared context, insofar as it is valid and legitimate and removed of errors. In this way the binary observer _must accept 'other truth' that accounts for the larger totality of truth (T), that is pT.2, pT.3...pT.N, and thus everything that is T minus pT.1, which could be this doubling of truth that must in turn be mediated beyond the binary constraints. If the observer is unwilling or unable to do this, they would be incapacitated in logical reasoning with other observers insights as a shared model, to uphold an ideological POV. yet if they accept it, their minor truth by comparison is limited in controlling the interpretation and thus forces a compliance with truth that in effect no longer allows the old presumptions and positions to be retained. if this was a ploy, internal contradictions would likely be noticeable or a fakeness in this process. It probably could not be very well mimicked though if it were, could only last so long before tension between competing views internal and external caused psychic collapse. it is to say that without 'grounding' in truth, or its actual observation, that 'going along with things' in a paradoxical framework without truly believing in the process, recognizing truth in such a way, could be a self destructive process if the person remained binarist, and this intolerable conflicting position between logics could force submission due to madness of having once all powerful observations instead become minimal at best in a larger framework, if psychologically unable to see beyond the self's POV. to try to defeat the larger truth the binarist would have to maintain two versions of truth, while being able to externally reason in their biased framework with others, or rely on false frameworks for their evaluations. it should be readily evident and easy to discern this kind of deception because binary rationalization would be the governing OS of the person, even though they may say or indicate otherwise by following, mimicry. --- questions on random --- basic electronic circuit with reversed diode for noise. wondering if size of diode has been correlated to noise patterns-- does a larger diode generate more randomness. is there any boundary issue for randomness. it would seem like there would be for linear algorithms versus parallel sets. for instance, if it were analogous, imagine an aquarium is a smaller diode and a swimming pool is a much larger diode. and the same effect is going to be used in both to test for randomness of numbers. how would their output be compared and evaluated in the same terms, and is it related in any way to the size or boundary of the diode itself, as to randomness generated. here is why it seems like it might. if dropping a rock into an aquarium there would be a splash and waves would immediately start as the rock sinks to the bottom and thus the boundary condition would influence how much this outside interaction effects the inside equilibrium. in that higher waves may form and multiple, if not causing a local splash, and the structure inside the aquarium could be altered by rock entering its domain. throwing the same rock into a swimming pool may not have similar effects at the larger scale, it may sink further to the bottom yet not disrupt anything else at that scale, and the waves it makes may be minor compared with the smaller closed environment. whatever influence it may have on the equilibrium would appear to be much less of a disruption or influence. then consider throwing the same rock in the middle of the ocean which may have large waves already and it may not sink for a long time compared to the other two environments, and it may have negligible effect on wave creation and may never effect the outer boundary, essentially 'infinity' in comparison to the aquarium or swimming pool. and thus it may no discernible effect on the structure that may exist or be considered random, even though it may have some influence, because it is so infinitesimal. in this way it is to ask if the 'bounds' or region of randomness may be related to what is accessed or output as randomness, also in relation to accessing this state externally or interacting with it, as an influence. now perhaps this is not an accurate correlation, though i thought i read or heard mention of various approaches to gleaning information from closed if not blackbox systems via external diagnostic evaluations seemingly similar in nature, where a signal may be injected into a realm and read back to learn of its internal functioning, structure or timing that could be used to gain access or subvert its operation. and in my naive mind i relate that to throwing the rock into the bounded environment and monitoring its trajectory, what is known about it, and using this perhaps in a way like a random number generator. if structure of randomness is discernible whatever that mystery is in the box (aquarium, etc) is assumed to be bad for generating numbers because it could be used to compromise the security of cryptographic algorithms. and so if someone were to evaluate the water (numbers generated) and they could somehow discern a bounded condition that forced patterns somehow, that would compromise the number generation. or, what if a diode could have an electromagnet placed next to it and align force fields somehow that would change the structure of what is generated, yet this may not be detectable on a circuit board or in an unseen encased or protected device. and while this is foolish to consider from this naive perspective, without any knowledge or likely inaccurate assumptions and faulty framework that does not correlate with the issues -- it is to wonder still if it might have something to do with a linear approach to this computation that is requiring of 'no discernible structure' as an a priori constraint. for instance, what if multiple bit sets queried the diode state for numbers simultaneously and their interaction was randomized atop the diode return values, or that these were mapped to 0-9 and not just 0/1 for numbers. or what if it were possible to do this fast enough such that various sized randomized numbers could be input into a running stream, such as 1 to 12 variables stitched on after another with concurrent randomness. or multiple diodes in an array which could be queried both in serial and parallel and return 'variable' output that may again randomly stream into a string (or a bit string, if each output were to become a set in a running bit superset). if someone could influence the operation of those devices, could they still access the cryptographic secrets of the algorithms or could defenses exist in the construction and access of randomness that separates these systems. in a parallel approach why must structure be assume to be a default exploit for knowing the computational structure if it is actually arbitrary and to me in terms of bit sets and calculating multiple infinities, this is an issue seemingly equivalent with the rock and the ocean. whatever local structure that rock may encounter or microscopic wave does not indicate it will be able to discern overall structure of the infinite boundary. you could throw a million rocks in and it still may not have any compromising effect on whatever detail or area or structure the computation resides in in a temporal shifting structure that may or may not be 'on' or accessible in a given interaction- and thus repeated targeting against randomness may not reveal any greater insight into particular messaging in the infinity context, or so it is proposed, if 'vertical' computation is involved. this fool does not realize how foolish they are to consider such questions so it is funny for me, to neither know nor care how ridiculous this is. the ragged presumption then is that infinity calculations could function as a type of 'mystery box' that computation and encryption occurs within and that randomness is part of this, yet structure within randomness may not indicate what is or what is not encrypted in that particular approach. it would seemingly offer randomness, even if structure exists, because whatever is accessed would be so minor compared to its interior boundary. if you have multiple sets as a starting point and each has a potential for infinite x infinite x infinite possibilities, that involves far greater randomness than a string of binary digits made arbitrary. and it cannot be easily accounted for by an algorithm, to decipher its meaning, if that is indeed its basis for randomness because the algorithm could be random, as with the output, within certain parameters. anything x anything + anything / anything = context. what computer is capable of figuring that out, prior to accessing the crypto code, and doing it repeatedly in real-time in an ever changing array of numbers and autogenerated code, variables upon variables. it would seem even an issue of forensics would be no good, as it could be arbitrary, non-repeating and repeating structures that may or may not be active or reappear again, themselves shifting or within structures that open up or close or phase change. maybe a part of a structure is part of number, touches upon it, and yet that is it. if it is a random would it in any way indicate the structure it is related to or would it be arbitrary and thus like looking for a skull in a sand dune based on a ridge that was formed on one day and gone the next, yet not knowing where the skull is. so while the serial approach seems to seek out noise, the parallel bit set approach appears to exist within the noise as a default condition and may involve a different realm of questions and new assumptions. processing noise, ubiquitous noise, contextless needles. localized skews, uncorrected shotglass scenarios. potentially 1,000s of permutations of encrypting code -- because it is of an empirical 'many' versus 2 or 3 or 5 layered crypto approaches. another analogy might be a cloud chamber, wherein if a serial string or crypto algorithm may be broken if those fleeting cosmic rays were somehow to momentarily light up and reveal a hidden structure via this interaction. and yet the detachment of multiple sets in a bit string may not readily be recognized as a totality because it could occupy more noise than the cosmic rays introduce into the system or may not work-back to a solution for the shared framework if it were generated randomly or disconnected from the output in its arbitrary range of meaning- the boundary where signal may exist nested in the structure of noise yet not be readily differentiated as a single structure or active unless those dots are connected or revealed, which encryption could seemingly hide and would require a key to decrypt. as if the entire cloud chamber would need to be decrypted, potentially, by brute force, and thus throwing every externality into the interior realm yet it could expand infinitely and still not reveal what is on its inside. or so that is what a conceptualization of nested sets appears to indicate, when in a noisy, randomly generated environment, signaling not overt. a monkey-typewriter situation, any probing potentially to reveal meaning. maybe the mystery box has produced shakespeare upon a dictionary search or query, and an elaborate false universe opens up, a portal that instead could be activated and sustained as a false corridor and then be made operational with doubling and turning of those trapped inside the mirror, containing and parallelizing the reality, merging yet bounding its action. thus, probabilities in context of nested infinities could remain unknowns and unstable. querying the arbitrary data set as randomizer would generate its own internal meaning, may or may not be connected to other frameworks, yet ever changing, irrespective of decrypting interpretation. therefore, a stone thrown into this realm could create its own data yet may not have any structural effect on what already exists as it exists, or it may access some angle or detail of a shared framework yet within another perspective or meaning and thus bounded in another use of the same signage, via not knowing what is activated or not in a given moment. why is the RNG not of cloud code formation, such that: RNG = [N1][N2][N3]...[N^n] => # such that: N = 0 -> infinity (or any calculative function or sign or computation, randomized) this would create a noise ocean, versus a string of binary bits in terms of a generating structure (seemingly aquarium, in terms of potentially being able to manipulate the environment to create effects to subvert it). --- cloud formations --- to me the issue of encountering a recognizable pattern or symbol formed of clouds in in the sky provides a context for the issue of bounded infinity and its interpretation by an observer. if the universe (U) was considered the largest boundary, and of all the clouds that may be referenced, it is only the set in certain encounters that provide this meaningful connection, only a limit portion of the sky at a limited time and duration, and involves weather patterns, quality of light, types of clouds, and also the particular observational framework that provides meaning or links to the symbolism. thus in the set of all clouds it is only a specific cloud code that has this function, and if it is not determined by the observer, it may even appear arbitrary from their perspective. thus in cloudspace only some clouds are code like this, and it is very small portion given all the clouds in the sky, for a particular observer. cloudspace (clouds {code}) now it may be possible that the generation of cloud code is not arbitrary and this reverse-engineering of individual perspective could deliver a meaningful cloud formation on demand as if by a script, so an observer may see in a given instance a given symbol that may not be noticed by others or be perceived meaningful, except by the observer in a particular framework. and thus a forced perspective of a sort could format the sky in such a way and thus write this symbolism into the environment, via magic seemingly. how it occurs beyond the boundary, observational limits and threshold of understanding of the observer, and yet there it is, decrypted as it were from the other surrounding clouds yet if reliant on a time and unique perspective (ID) it may not be noticed by others or be recognized as having meaning that may instead have heightened significance in a given moment. and thus the cloud could, as a sign, relay a signal and communicate ideas and information this way. (the comparison with a realm of interior infinities is that it would be entirely populated by recognizable fragments and 'clouds of meaning', as if a particulate gas that is held together by various atmospheric charge and that can be combined or separated and recombine with others layers, and that universe upon universe of cloud formations could be mapped out, and may be ever changing, including if patterns included weather-like flows of data that transform or shift the interior context or keep it destabilized.) a man in the middle attack for looking up at the sky and instead of a state of nature, the clouds could be formed within a simulation of nature and thus the clouds may be data objects that can be manipulated as [signs] of nature, representing nature, yet not actually nature themselves, only images, substitutions. the Wizard of Oz scenario, earth populated by robotic pigeons. the messages could be transmitted in a false POV and false framework, and thus involve a deception that could lead a person to doom. 'the mystery box' contains both scenarios, potentially. allowing for both the open extension into the hidden uncompressed domain that could be developed as an interiority, mapping out infinity structures, and it could also function as a boundary space that is a false perspective of this, in some ways sharing the same structure yet within a different zoning that expands otherwise and is controlled otherwise, involving knowing which clouds are real and which are pseudo-real, a split of logics the difference as the signs ground into different frameworks yet remain correlated and can establish and sustain entangled dynamics within protected boundaries. or so it is imagined possible, given the nature of labyrinths and perspective. --- what the hell --- if i knew anything about electronics i would get a cracked artificial quartz crystal ball, internally fit it with piezo sensor, temperature sensor, photodiode on the outside, put tinfoil around it, get a feverish rotating DJ laser and point it on the inside and output readings from the various sensors into various combined number producing sequences. if really clever i would ask a nanotechnologist to prototype the lottery ball randomizer at nanoscale or have micromachines tooled to do something equivalent that could be put on a circuitboard. and yet, i wonder, why not just use the internet as the randomizer and multi set search and randomize the output. or take a photograph in multiple parallel set evaluation and randomize that. that is, the reading or data interaction is arbitrary yet bounded, though the calculation itself could be random, nonlinear and thus add more variability. and maybe this is already the default, though the photograph would have structure, yet if the computation based on input is also random, how could it be so readily traced back to crack encryption. maybe it is the more times it is referenced and an issue of boundaries, or that computers are not able to compute 'infinity' numbers to allow this to occur without constraints, such that speed is all important thus binary or single streams of random digits not pieced together set after concatenated set ad infinitum. so maybe it is the serial approach that requires it. if not this, why not have non-binary character sets as the output and use that, something potentially arbitrary or unmappable even, as a system. why must it be a number. why not a glyph or fragment or symbol instead. --- cryptic symbolism --- the HIOX symbol is a square Union Jack, easy to identify. as far as i got with research was the Egyptian Sacred Cut for its origins as well as Plato, Meno i think it was, where the geometry of the square is first cut diagonally, this making a quadrant of the HIOX symbol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meno also important in this is dimensionality, nested platonic solids, whereby a single unit (say toothpick) can be used to generate five different perfect forms (the elements: fire, air, earth, water, aether or electromagnetism) and they each nest within the other forms. this is an entire philosophy that involves geometry and relations between hierarchical structures. a small amount of polymer clay and toothpicks should allow the forms to be built and nested via experimentation. though an inversion of the HIOX form exists, or an opposite structure which is the same graphic yet half of it is mirrored, so that the diagonals that radiate outward instead touch the midpoint of each edge. it is as if a female version of the form. there is also a combined symbol with both the male and female dynamics within them, and from this my contention has always been that data could be written into this structure fractally, as if sentences could be wrapped around its at decreasing scale as if encrypting to planck scale. in that it would lose its legibility yet like a QR code could be read by machines as if a kind of microdot or data signature file. in other word, what would the result be if you took the letter A within such a master symbol, then decided where you would next write the letter B within its matrix, at another level of scale, and onward through the alphabet. What if you took a sentence or a book. How much data might be tied to structures that could be written in the empty space, as if a coastline, if in a decipherable order.' what if data was written into HIOX and decoded by its inverted symbol. or shifted inbetween the two, etc. questions, possibilities. cryptic code. Paris - Eiffel Tower http://www.pinterest.com/pin/178525572702304954/ attachments: 1.5, 2.0 ☸

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[8] code observatory
by brian carroll 22 Sep '13

22 Sep '13

--- continued... --- so maybe nothing is this simple, the previous statements and hypothesis themselves by default ungrounded, unrelated to the complexity involved in the existing context for social relations. what if the control of 'sexual code' and its programming via advertisement and industries is what formats consciousness and social relations and thus establishes the false 'common value' which is based on pseudo-truth and in that inaccuracy, the exploits can occur which turn a situation against itself by these very dynamics, if not via signs that represent them. for instance, if every female model walking down a global catwalk starts resembling Mick Jagger, you gotta wonder if the fake god is a narcissist who cannot get enough of their own image, even in an opposite sex form. and what that does to male-female dynamic relations likewise, whose ideal mate is really this, or is it precisely the vulgarity it involves the corruption itself, the information warfare and psychological ops against humanity. for instance, how do you know the object of desire is not a man dressed up or sex-changed into a woman, and what if paired keys does not address this or there is deception going on, where female appearance is camouflage to exploit those with natural desires, turning this connection of potential love into one subverted by hate, using love against a person as their weakness. and what if this covert, hostile agenda is normalized instead. and thus even a woman-hating male psyche could be representing if not also standing in for women, via simulation or substitution, for social relation. how do you know the difference between the patterns, how to verify and validate and secure a connection in truth, versus relying on pseudo-truth and ultimately what could be lies, then allowing the exploit the access it needs to corrupt and takeover systems. perhaps most especially in terms of blackmail or setting up a person for a takedown via these methods. it is proposed that the deceptions in those domain rely upon lies and structures of falsehood, and 'iconic' expectations such that, like modular code and programming, can provide predictable behaviors to exploit as if based on rulesets that can program step by step the interaction according to a preordained pattern. and that as long as truth is secondary to this, whether via money or shared ideology or bias, that in that zone these other activities could be masked or hidden as an agenda, opaque, in waiting. whereas in grounded truth and intimate connection, truth is the transparent shared condition of being, honest and error-correcting and forms the basis for trust between people, not some other framework. perhaps the only way to know would be a genuine connection in love, removed of illusion, and from here to proceed- anything else could be an illusion, about images, and in this way mirages in the desert of unshared reality, tricksters all around. love as grounding for intimate social relations and beyond, as it relates with fundamental and foundation truth, as it establishes solid relations between people and within society via shared empirical agenda. one, many. versus its subversion, mimicking of love, exploiting it, to serve some other end or hidden agenda, and thus false confirmations and shared lies that enable alternate worlds of deception which can occupy houses, entire neighborhoods and cities and states via networks, and beyond, to which a person may find themselves someday lost, every direction misinformation, every sign post a false indication, leading further and further into doom. thus the assumption of physical connection and the terror of its subversion may create a gap between the shared mind and awareness, and the physical relation with another, even though cryptic communication could occur. and thus asynchronous relations could exist in their place, as if each person is on the other side of a boundary that cannot be surpassed without losing the connection, because it cannot be sustained in the given environment. and yet entanglement could be present in this sharing of truth, especially in that erotic charge where worlds align, and in this, the same issue of keys and secure connection though in a realm of shared memory instead, as the intimate relation, and thus grounding could occur by validating this and securing it as a shared truth, in the realm of atmosphere it occupies. archetypes, jungian psychology, transference of S -> S' and S' -> S'. a woman walks around with her luscious shoes and wet gleaming nail polish until another turns a corner and becomes transfixed at the beauty, the circuit completed, switches turned on in the shared erotic connection and the alter finds its devote worshipper who receives this extreme pleasure. the economics of lust and love, these forms of hidden exchange, full of meaning and insight into the prime motivation that moves the world in its health and through its dysfunction, sickness. a terror to not have these dynamics liberated while the ugliness and grotesque can do anything while those so devoted are trapped and confined by rules and regulations as if natural instinct and affections area illegal, while regressions, sadism and misogyny are normalized. impossible for healthy balanced sexual dynamics when they are not allowed for humans, including the full range connections. instead all of this is middle-managed, bureaucratized and exploited by an instilled set of beliefs, at least on the outside, in the world of images. it is as if there are components of a circuitboard that are made to work with one another, that have collaborative and beneficial dynamics yet are not allowed in proximity to one another based on the components that are by comparison rigged, cheating and taking over the space and rewiring it only for their kinds, leaving areas of isolation and malfunctioning due to the inability to access the other, beyond the structural frameworks that seek to subvert and exploit the connection due to a corruption of its truth. what is unshared or partly true must be adapted to in order to survive. and then only to find later on what is missing, where it is located, and the distance between that may only be temporarily bridged in passing, via a quick glimpse of recognition of what has been lost in the everyday. and this can be the truth of love itself, intimacy, grounded connections. as with a simulation that seeks to replicate another situation, the fakery can be revealed in its errors, where resolution or detail is lacking and thus whether via inadequate computation or malmodeling, the framework based on and supporting this falsity may begin to warp and skew, potentially to cause accidents and crashes as its compass does not align with the larger circumstance of shared awareness that it seeks to control and to replace. so too with fake men and women, shallow and without depth of imagination, of limited and rigid reasoning, and while 'saying all the right things' it is these 'ideas' that have already and must always have been said before, as if referencing a memory database for fake-insight, correct perspective. again the binary viewpoint is ideal for such a simulative social substitute whereas a paradoxical situation would throw loop after loop into basic functioning and become a turing test to figure out to what degree the internal mechanism can actually calculate something beyond its boundary or threshold of interpretation. thus pregnant pause one thing, silence another as the system reboots and tries to brute force the situation again and again, as if something would be different by merely repeating the trials, trying to look for an error to exploit to retain old existing worldview as shared reality, albeit ungrounded and based upon deception, cloak dagger. the alchemy of relations, natural with natural, artificial with artificial, and virtual with virtual; yet in their recombination the dynamic exchange of natural with artificial, or natural with virtual, either tending toward the cyborg and in their composite, perhaps something akin to an advanced humanity yet removed of the human and grounded truth as the central value, the antihuman which seeks to destroy and replace the nature at its heart. typologies and permutations, chemical models and their transformations and relations within a geometric context -- not only in terms of being, and thus identity -- ideas themselves: models, hypotheses, awareness. in this way, understanding such cryptic code and programming can result in capturing pieces, turning positions and players via seeding truth and threshold access, putting the labyrinth on autopilot via these dynamics. it is thus in symbolic communication that observation often occurs and in awareness of self and others in this context, within existing or potential dimensions. and yet to also perhaps be ungrounded, illiterate in this same way as to how the observations are generated, validated, achieving 'truth' or does it begin as a fiction until removed of all accompanying errors... again to language and signs, the ecological relation amongst things, the associational structures inherent in perception whether or not conscious of them. to see a sign above a store with stalks of wheat, indicating bread. or grapes, wine. green grapes, white wine, red grapes red wine and so on, to whatever level of detail. infrastructural signage. bees as they relate to flowers and pollination, as this relates to honey. ideas, concepts, dynamics involved in these structural interrelations. massive code as it were, societies envisioned structured around the bee, for instance, by analogy. spiritual significance. deep knowledge of nature and industry, as systems relate and exchange their shared truth. and so too, in the more profane and superficial realm, viagra and an male male virility and breast implants and signs of hyper-feminine nurturing and the ecosystems of advertising, mass media entertainment, and social relations based on what becomes a structural pseudo-truth, as if mimicry, by which to 'shared consciousness' which can be a false perspective and unsustainable except as artifice, which then is further developed and built upon as if normal and solid when instead it is not of this same nature or instinct. it has different parameters of interaction, including detached sign-based relations where error-correction may be ignored and create a realm of ideological commerce detached from its physical reality, where womens breasts become detached from the sex itself via imposters or female substitutes which stand-in as representers or signs of female being yet seek to subvert the feminine by doing so, that depth of evil hacking, as it also relates breast cancer or other defacements, cutting and scarring of the body and its replacement via another plastic aesthetic, barbie doll, yet potentially Edward in drag, giving come hither looks on the street. the point is that -belief is not truth-. yet it can function as this if not aware of what is being perceived, having an understanding of the idea and a way of evaluating its integrity. can the belief even be questioned- or is it beyond the boundary of interpretation. and if so, what might it mean if a world of children is released into a world of masquerade, and the basic relations between boys and girls are forged in a world of imposters and exploiters who seek to destroy these very connections via their subversion. or short-circuit development of individuals and their relations via abuse that makes it certain they cannot function in these dynamics, healthily. what if that code is important too, for security in the state, protecting shared value, yet exists outside of software and hardware systems today, or rather- is enabling these types of exchanges via an ideological fortress built of binary religion and schemes that ride alongside the deception, providing tools and carrying water and making change at the sideshows. what if this is the same context for mass surveillance and these are also 'the politics' on the inside, mapping to the same corruption that becomes oppression of ordinary citizens. (cf. false perspective in relation to false economy via pseudo-truth, false reality sustained by maintaining status quo; code as facade.) what if the government spying of the public is being used to secure a private ideology as a perpetual, unchecked, governing power via corrupt language with no accounting for truth in its onesided reasoning. that is, it is deemed "legal" within a warped and skewed constitution and is essentially BAD FAITH, functioning against citizens, its subtext political domination and removing of enemies via guiding to cattle chutes. the programmatic aspect of this- you say certain things and they, like code words automatically trigger certain dynamics, as if via mechanism. and thus the [sign] of something, merely referencing 'the constitution' by someone who is a 'constitutional lawyer' could be viewed legitimate because what they declare cannot be overpowered by another interpretation in binary terms, yet similarly *ignores* all contrary and falsifying facts via ideology, and therefore relies upon, adds and extends errors into the shared state framework (like bugs and malicious code) that can be further exploited by subsequent policy actions -- yet which are never held to account in an empirical framework of shared truth - beyond language (!) meaning that the [signs], words and letters equate with this grounded truth instead of the ones and zeros of truth and falsity via logical reasoning, whereby acts of state become acts of literature, via private interpretation said to be and validated as 'the reading' though based upon these flaws that, in this A=B subjectivity, deteriorate the state in its functioning due to the loss of accurate grounding and accountability in truth, of and as truth, and instead only and increasingly partial, serving fewer and fewer. it is not that someone cannot propose ideas, it is that there is no error-correction mechanism to stop false perspectives from taking over the interpretation and thus an imbalanced framework, a corrupted code results. and mass surveillance contrary to privacy and businesses, franchises and supermarkets and shoe stores surveilling citizens is a vast obscenity to the laws of the shared state-- and yet a certain empowered population likewise seems to believe this is their right and proper managerial place, providing oversight of others, and thus tangibly 'represents their will' to promote and succeed in such an agenda. beneath this is the problem of reasoning in binary terms, as if a fencing competition, points scored and one side is victorious. or jousting match, someone brutally dismounted from their vehicle if not impaled. thus fear of losing and losing face, in binary terms. versus the greatness of ideas, of truth and concepts and modeling, the activity of considering things and sharing discoveries and knowledge and how terrible it has become in an age of universalized communication tools, the limit becoming ourselves, our limits and lack of imagination and the ability to think beyond flawed approaches while stuck in serial (binary) language. perhaps most notable is the role of theory, both in negative consequences yet also the metaphysical and tacit knowledge developed in tentative frameworks of interpretation that could and should be salvaged and brought into common empirical error-corrected realms, for what is true of what is theorized remains true, yet should not be reliant on falsity or errored-structures to maintain the hypotheses. because the gap between pT and T, and pT and F is the realm of the exploit, the subversion, which can change the stated direction of inquiry via its effects, whether knowingly by subversion or accident, hijacked by other unaccounted hidden forces. (note: it is this realm of partial truth or pseudo-truth that is the realm of paradox. essentially up until now it has been referenced as an inaccuracy, whereby A=B is considered false, due to limits of explanation in email format- more likely it would be said B=B equals not-A and thus would be false, though perhaps this should occur beyond a,b notation and just use t,f, such that T=F is the paradoxical condition, whereby what is true about it (T) would need to separated from what is false (F) within a realm of pseudo-truth, such that: 1 <--- T --- (pT) --- F ---> 0 and in doing this via a perpetual looping testing of the hypothesis, remove falsity and error from pseudo-truth, distilling the truth to only what is true (1) so that what remains of pseudo-truth is as near absolute as possible (towards 100% true, or 1 in probabalistic terms). in this way, a minor truth embedded in falsity that exists as ungrounded pseudo-truth, say a tiny fragment of truth to recover from an inaccurate error reliant perspective (1% or .01) could by this process be isolated and purified, moving towards 100% or 1 (T). thus the issue of paradox exists in an A=B or T=F scenario though removes the known falsity from the modeling, such that: (1) A <--- pT ----> B (0) therefore: (~1 <-- .01) T <== pT ...in terms of addressing and resolving paradox via hypotheses and testing models and concepts via multiple observers and shared empirical observations of the common event from as many angles as available. A = A (tending towards truth) A ≅ B (tending toward paradox) A = B (tending towards falsity) or so it is proposed there is a nuanced delineation required that has been missing in previous explanation about the ambiguity involved.) ideas are like molecules, having edges and vertices and yet this is a nonlinear approach requiring to some degree a computational context for such 'conceptual language' to exist within, beyond the alphabetic as a means to communicate, outside the book, into the circuit and diagram and empirical model. panoptics central, many observers of a given event and tallying and error correcting the shared view, removing falsity and thus distortion and arriving at structures and scaffolding within and between concepts. truth at its core, logic as the basis for reasoned connections, and then referencing this model from any point and perspective and moving through it and making various interconnections as a way of conveying ideas, truth, perception, experience. school children to grandparents referencing the same modeling, developing and refining it over a lifetime. the same idea in part as hypertext^1, in this way such point-line-plane constellations of data could be mapped into its multidimensional structure and a single common instance of a concept referenced by all documents, such that [crypto] links to the concept, error-corrected, hypothesis challenged model of crypto maintained by tens of thousands of people and debated, in its entirety, as to its integrity and validity in terms of grounded truth, where every truth must be accounted for, via probabilistic looping of data and new data that remains contingent, able to be falsified, error-checked and corrected as part of the process of logical reasoning / programming. it would then be possible to develop a periodic table of 'ideas', models and concepts that are /forms/ that are aligned and grounded in the shared awareness of empirical truth and thus as code, and can be used for debate. not a negative interaction of win-lose, instead the intellectual challenge and joy of sharing views and observations and working-through differences and learning from one another and incorporating what is true within a model of shared truth and verifying and refining it as part of this 'reasoning' that has been lost to private relativistic dialogue in binary terms. in this way, all ideas, my own completely error-ridden and yet like others, whatever is true in them would survive the edits in shared evaluation as 'truth' and not just a private observation that functions only as fiction. whereas what is false would be removed, and what is partially true would need to be separated into what is true and what is unknown and what is false, and thus the room for potential hypotheses and further evidence, and also for the richness in previous outdated modeling that may correlate with an ecosystem of discovery, providing indications of a process involved that moves from earliest stages to refinement of these conceptual models. again, literacy is required, the ability to think and be aware and communicate and relate in a shared framework, as human observers. (basically modeling ideas as circuits, formed into molecules. individuals as circuits, tasks and routines for a new model of personal computing based on an AI data furnace approach) --- random notes: voting through digital money, taxes for representation, steering and percentage weighting towards certain policy priorities and-or approaches, say funding basic and applied research. also: greatest threat to tax system is subversion of policy which justifies rebellion against taxes to fund private state oppression of public, financing own holocaust. work as info/value, correlated to money/currency via data model. accounting for work in a realm of symbolic processing, versus manual labor standard. issue of observing and accounting for crypto state viewed as treasonous by the binary ideologues, revealing deception of traitors, moles, liars and deceivers. becomes basis for criminalizing citizens as if perpetrators, use of surveillance blackmail in this context, free speech and expression the means to justify further police state tactics to protect those on inside and in administrative and managerial roles. social hierarchy involved and protected or secured bureaucratic structures these activities occur within. --- ^1 Project Xanadu by Ted Nelson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu Computers for Cynics 0 - The Myth of Technology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk Computers for Cynics 1 - The Nightmare of Files and Directories http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfai5reVrck Computers for Cynics 2 - It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6SUOeAqOjU Computers for Cynics 3 - The Database Mess http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhzD2FKEEds Computers for Cynics 4 - The Dance of Apple and Microsoft http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xL19f48m9U Computers for Cynics 5 - Hyperhistory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9PmIkAYhI0 Computers for Cynics 6 - The Real Story of the World Wide Web http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWDPhEvKuRY Computers for Cynics N - CLOSURE: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w950GgRzbJk ⚓

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Mailing list format with Subject Tagging
by Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) 21 Sep '13

21 Sep '13

Hi all, i would suggest to start tagging the "Subject" for all the messages going trough the cypherpunks mailing list. It really help in spooling and organizing emails in everybody inbox. Mailman does that by default, pre-pending [ListName] in the "Subject" line. I'd love it. -naif

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News from Eric Hughes
by jd.cypherpunks＠gmail.com 21 Sep '13

21 Sep '13

Cypherpunk Eric Hughes: Der Überwachungsalptraum ist wahr geworden - http://t.co/hZAWMTEKWZ (DE only) Die Zeit Google translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A//t.co/hZAWMTE… --Michael

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[7] code constellations
by brian carroll 21 Sep '13

21 Sep '13

--- intro --- observation based on the assumption that everything is code, to some degree or other. in this, that everything that can be is mapped into language systems and mathematical context, and that there is an outer boundary or edge of description, rationalization, where questions and ideas meet, beyond pre-existing answers and ideologies- new data or anomalies that break the worldview, reigning perspective, or shared context. code is thus not just an invention from punchcard looms for algorithms of calculation and thus only in its binary format legitimate, nor is crypto so limited to only be an issue of silicon hardware/software tools for conveying hidden or secure messaging. metaphor to semaphore as language itself flips its bits. quilts an example of stories embedded within a particular structural system, telling of events and people within an abstracted language requiring 'increased awareness' or 'new literacy' to decode. patterns- modular constructions, repeated and unique, style as it relates to substance and the symbolic- likely a more pure form of communication than buggy computer code as a basis for the same, seemingly even more secure if the connection is hidden and inaccessible to the unknowing, except shared key quilters. atmosphere created and sustained this way as consciousness, shared understanding and awareness and value and systems of communication, association and correlation, and grounding of ideas within the realm of objects, ideas made tangible via the material and yet not cold and detached and themselves hidden, and instead upfront, aesthetic creations asking to be looked at, reviewed, evaluated, inspected, and maybe perhaps you could also begin to read and understand the stories they are carrying within. pattern recognition, in this way, though into deeper interpretation than soup can label equals soup can label, the realm of nuance and juxtaposition, advanced dynamics of association, frameworks, scaffolding, structures built to convey such messaging. in this way, so too flower arranging. decentralized and distributed code networks, perimeters of dynamic interrelations, flowers appearing at events as symbolic subtext to mediate exchange or secure and enhance a shared zone via their given aesthetics. these, wide ranging and as deep as nature and its understanding. the gear-like flower evoking perhaps a mechanization, the colors their own language mapping the world and its social dynamics, love, friendship, drama and danger, specific patterns telling stories birth to death, celebration to impending doom. sunrises and sunsets, the moon and birth of stars, and of music in their visual and fragrant ethereal delight, the reminder of what is missing in the technological assemblage, detached from nature, by comparison a vase of sensors and LED candlelight fail to warm the heart, imagination. and thus the floral arrangement as form of secure communication, for someone to not know of this realm of cultural literacy, to miss the icepick flower amidst others, while those who see it know what is arriving next. and thus of limits and bounds to observation, as crayon-like simplicities exist for awareness by the uninitiated, especially those without appreciation for natural aesthetics and their language- and the lost intelligence that results from this, which itself can be a security threat if not able to read the signs, especially as they may occupy one's particular world. in this way the code of flowers can be a highly developed skill and awareness, a means to establish secure communication and remote connections at a distance, even if relayed or in the presence of others, given a shared framework for interpretation. and so some observers may be effectively blind to the hidden content or code within, and incapable of reading the details or structures involved,which could be patterns on the flowers themselves, the different types of leaves or various plant forms, as these combine into larger relational structures that can mirror the surrounding world and provide insight via this correlation and alignment, if developed as a practice. for some it may never go beyond the color for roses as a mapping of social protocol, a symbolic and perhaps hollow expectation, turned into a commodity. another thing. whereas for others this depth and detail could be as large as nature to consider and communicate within, and thus not only for the florist, the botanist and those who study and relate and exchange ideas in these domains, this knowledge enabling code similarly, across structural systems of empirical observation, this as 'reasoning'. in this way the disciplines, archaeology to zoology, mechanics to small businesses of a particular domain, hidden communications through the symbolism involved in shared frameworks and exchange. at some point, perhaps, additional messages carried along the carrier waves of these shared structures and assumptions, rightly or wrongly. the limit to this or conundrum seemingly being insight, or lack thereof and instead a rote presumption of some bounded meaning that never goes into or beyond the ordinary and thus in some sense dead ideas or ideological dispositions to the same domain. this is the danger of rationalization, deciding upon or fixing a perspective that may become rigid and unquestioning, a regime of interpretation that may bound further inquiry, improvement, and development beyond some prevailing condition. and in this a lack of insight if not due to lack of reflection or self-awareness could occur that instills and requires this incapacitation as a normality, as a mode of existence. whereby things are only what they are, nothing else beyond the given point of view. it could be the difference between ideas which are alive and those that are dead. consider birdwatching where some may observe birds to check off a particular type of bird from their most-wanted observational list and those who may observe birds in their backyard or in the park and consider their existence and enjoy their presence. if birdwatching was just a pattern-matching exercise the larger issues of birds such as their role as mobile sensors of environment health and a diagnostic for changing ecosystem patterns could be detached from this, and thus only the checkmark matters and amounts to a leisure activity without greater insight into what is actually being observed. whereas if birding data is fed into larger databases by bird watchers or others who monitor habitats, that can help build maintain and adjust models to help account for present and future ecological dynamics, which can relate to policy if it were a value in civilizational development, versus a footnote without a feedback loop enough to actually alter the dynamics, due to development patterns having turned the entire realm of wildlife into compartmentalized zoos, emptied of larger species of wildlife, the state parks now held within zones of unending suburbanization. those who can see and understand what it means when there are no robins singing in spring may then understand the signaling of nature in regards to its pattern language, or as with clouds and weather, connect with this natural knowledge and as others likewise, relate in a shared awareness and domain with regard to its meaning, substance. in this way, the pileated woodpecker may signify something and in its mystery, in sighting or observing it, there can be insight to find it in a location that it has never been seen or known to exist. and likewise, a card sent in the mail of a bird or wildlife scene may similarly evoke such messaging, for the initiated. this is the realm of the symbolic and reliant on shared awareness and understanding, else to simply evoke something intangible that may never be understood in its depth for those without such literacy, and therefore remain in a realm of mystery, missed connection or a subtext that is inaccessible, though perhaps through another observer this same event will find its grounding via secure connection. the importance of boundaries and thresholds, and how bias skew and distortion could create barriers to interpretation because some event is *unlike* and thus may remain unobserved in its dimensionality where such meaning may be encoded, if not encrypted, and this could be of a natural realm, nature itself, or guided by human involvement and shaping of perception, as with cards or arrangements or research developing and sharing perspectives. though as information itself, whatever its substance, it would appear to exist as knowledge that functions as code, has programmatic qualities and degrees of comprehension that can lead from genetics and throughout the chemical and biological sciences outward, to ecosystems and habits and society and customs and rituals, and thus anthropology and onward, to the mundane everyday that in itself can be extraordinary, simply in sitting in a park or on the steps of a dwelling and to have such empirical encounters that may be developed or accessed or communicate in such a realm, here nor there in the context of technological civilization and yet primary to the heart, connection with others, and another way of saying and sharing and conveying vital information, ideas, shared awareness. and in this, a weather report or gorgeous looping radar image could itself as language, as a symbolic code, function as if a type of poetry via its visualization of this ineffable other realm - such that, in its aesthetics, perhaps it is of much greater value to have a 'painting' of such imagery looping within a digital frame as a painting that a copy of a copy of impressionist works centuries previous, as if most telling about what is beyond the door, lived context. this then of representation, also. as signs align and correlate with experiences. and the value of awareness, the meaning involved in these events, their role as shared and unshared code. what are the domains of this programmatic language and mathematics that you inhabit, like and unlike others. what domains does this extra-communicative activity take place. is it within hobbies or passions that make you unique, and how does your depth of interest relate or bound you from others- what does it open up in connection and allow for in terms of secure exchange and what does it close down by its misalignment or lack of connection due to boundaries of self and-or others? again, literacy seems all-critical, and in this the issue of sparking or developing that vital interest that opens up the fascination these discoveries and revelations can have within a life. the oft told story of young boys (and occasionally girls) whose fathers' taught them how to take things apart or worked on electronics kits, many times engineers and many with electronics backgrounds. whereas for others, the children may grow up inept, and with no such skills, perhaps as their parents did not have this same affordance either, thus impacting generation after generation in turn. graffiti is another area of code consideration, especially in terms of its ambiguity and potential difficulty in reading or deciphering for the uninitiated or outsiders, whether via colors or various styles or the meaning involved, though at the level of the alphabetic- the prevalence in the "superposition" of multiple potential letters at the same time, within the same word, to shift meaning via small details that can create out of one word fragment, sentence-like constructions. this is a remarkable skill and insight into the code of communicating and is an advanced approach to that communication keyboard reliant, bounded in any such ambiguitization at the scale of the letter itself, the typo occurring only by substitution digitally, tnis, though perhaps it is a similar idea with an additional typographic element, custom fonts allowing more to occur in the graphic detournement. and it should be said, as part of this hidden communication context and of code, that the cryptic writing oftentimes found on the back of streetsigns offers yet another potential application of crypto code in the everyday environment, no computers needed to observe yet without shared library or literacy, likely impenetrable for meaning. though rumored -these instructions- related to black helicopter society and direction for covert civilization who may key in and out of these infrastructural subtexts, markers as if waypoints, all signs eventually pointing to armageddon, this way... --- on color coding --- here, the sociological and cultural. 'whites' and 'blacks' as racial identities and how much data and bias can be formatted into worldviews and nuanced into structures relied upon by group identities. this then ranging perhaps to context of rainbow as cryptic evaluation of the varying hues, part of a larger shared spectral condition. and how beliefs, ideas, philosophies can exist according to these frameworks. it could be more complex or involved than color alone, and thus issues of boundaries, rationalizations, and limited interpretations, as this relates to issues of literacy and shared awareness and 'reasoning'. here again the binary is most dangerous, to over simplify and then roughcut reality to only a limited if self-biased viewpoint. the role of depth in this, what is true is true, and getting or accessing this truth versus trying to control and maintain some limited version of it which best suits a partial idea, protecting that 'fragment' in place of the larger whole and in doing so sacrificing the truth to sustain the larger structural falsity as if this truth. and thus ungrounded observations often seek to keep truth out to sustain a flawed POV and protect a version of events, yet this is very shallow and cannot be sustained beyond the finite limit, and itself bounds awareness to only what is inside that threshold. whereas in a feedback based, error-correcting observation of a surrounding context, the involved 'ecological dynamics' must be related to via accurate modeling of truth and thus ideas models hypotheses must be able to include truth of these dynamics and not seek to limit it via rationalization based on some partiality, as if the whole. terrible language this though like history, to fold into it humanity and women and not account for these dynamics then establishes structural distortions, lies even, to uphold and sustain a given false framework and unshared point of view. and yet likewise, to seek to include the larger ecological dynamics of female being the counterpoint within the same private limitation of feminism establishes its own biases and repeats the structuralization reliant upon the false perspective, in so far as larger truth is edited out of the shared human relations, whereby again there is no public beyond that of private wo|man and it becomes an issue of picking sides. nothing like having a contest between men and women for the place of representing the whole of humanity. it just does not make any sense, unless in a binary framework that legitimates it as an ideology, a tradeoff canceling the other reality, substituting it for a new one that shares and relies upon the same structural defects, as origin. thus 'bias' is transformed into a "right" and people can choose their own reality and this becomes a political process born of inadequate constitutional code that fosters this kind of programming that functions against humans and our shared awareness. this, my view, is likely flawed though offered as an interpretation of events and seeks to provide context for something that is formatting these relations and the way they are communicated by others means. certainly women themselves have developed their own ways of hidden communication and language, though the further it has become ideological the more fragmented the 'whole' view has been, where consensus is not an issue only of sex or gender as a class, because there can be low resolution from any view as to how it relates to a larger life, beyond a finite issue, as they combine into a life involving others, including in some cases, the antithesis (if not men). for sake of madness if not sanity let us just imagine that the entire world is run by men and even the domain of women is controlled by men, in some place more readily yet even in unexpected realms like fashion, to the point that androgyny tends towards the transvestite as the biased model for the 'shared aesthetics' of women, exhibiting a passive-aggressive hatred yet viable substitute, where female beauty is replaced by an army of manmade mannequins that have a male-friendly agenda, as an exploit even of the sexual domain, a conquering and annihilation of female beauty and its profanation such that her beauty cannot be allowed to exist without being subverted, spoiled, used against her, just like corrupt crypto- buying into it destroys the very idea, and this by design. and so what of an ideology that could promote such a hidden agenda, what kind of cause would be involved in using the sign and image of women and female beauty against herself and also against the men who love her, making repugnant the fascination and devotion by substituting it for something else (A=B), therefore amplifying perhaps the ambiguity and confusion and turning towards another approach, which tends towards the male-male dynamic as it contains both the male (anima) and the female (animus) between males as a bounded shared relation and awareness. In this way, the actual female is removed from the male relation and replaced by another male who takes on the female dimension, and such programming is used to control sexual dynamics within the subset of males, such that the basis for relations becomes: males (female+male) And likewise, for the other side of this divide, female relations: females (male+female) This in terms of set(subset) relations, whereby male-female & male-male would be the mating context, and female-male & female-female, in terms of a sex/gender divide. A lot more to it than this, including adding in dimensions of patriarchy and matriarchy and also God|desses, as these may map into both realms simultaneously. And also the psychological basis for these dynamics in their normality (female psyche of males = anima, male psyche of females = animus) which is a vital part of the human maturation process, whereby an adult is balanced in both their male and female aspects and not seeking to retain only one-sidedness, which can lead to great interrelation problems including abuse and suffering. The ideal relation of this subtext code of being then being a 'human female' and 'human male' who each have their own anima/animus issues that balance across the total shared circuit of being, and this as a traditional basis for relations and the wealth of developing long-term relation via marriage. male (anima) & female (animus) or in other words, the totality of each person... male (masculine+feminine) & female (masculine+feminine) And for each person this weighting could be different, some males may be more feminine in certain dimensions than others, though more masculine in certain areas, and likewise women may be more feminine or masculine attributes, and this would need to be complimentary and balance across the relations, which is psychological yet also social, which leads to belief that opposites can actually be very complimentary as the circuitry can have a full range across all the various potential dynamics. the point of this being that there are issues of awareness involved in identity, shared and unshared, and this especially so in terms of sexuality and gender as it relates to a preexisting biased condition of state and civilizational development that polarizes if not penalizes and makes impossible grounded relations between males and females in a way that 'benefits both' and instead via binary relations could become an issue of ~one must lose for another to gain, this a structural condition an thus destruction of family units and marriages because the foundation of relations is such that "one person's rights take away another person's equal rights". and thus an implicit form of submission is involved, both culturally yet also personally in that to span the sexual and gender dynamics can lead to normalizing this skew, structures thus reliant on warping and distortion to maintain 'shared reality' that is actually unshared and occurs by other means via subset dynamics (intra-woman, intra-men) as this continues to divide and subdivide until there are no relations anymore, else they become encrypted and only remote connections are possible, feasible, because the exploitation and total control is so complete, so annihilating, that there is no room anymore for love or grounded passion or connection or shared insight, basically outlawed or made illegal by the standing mediocrity that rules via this corruption. and then there is a voice that arises, a shared perspective mapped into the feminine, Code Pink within a mass mediated landscape that seemingly represents something of this condition, a counterpoint that just makes sense as a perspective- a viewpoint that is not confined within the mainstream view if not due to disenfranchisement as part of a reasoning process beyond that of private viewpoints- which has a public dimension, and that males and females can relate to or through via its symbology. it is as if a secret communication is given voice to say what is thought yet otherwise not heard, or breaks into consciousness what already exists within daily flows of relations and yet is silenced via these same environments, specifically via bias and the role of female imagination and action being removed from most every domain as having value and worth and importantly- insight, and knowledge of what is going on. this, the conceit of male perspective as primary and also superior in awareness, not accounting for limitations or skew and thus choosing errors over their correction if the feedback loop is broken or unobserved via power relations, which is normalized. the burka of ideology forced onto the minds of women as a means of controlling the state and the 'men' who require this in order to have their stations, virtually. --- crypto currency --- this may be an impossible point to make. it involves the disconnect between males and females as a structural necessity of the broken code of state and its effect on these same relations in terms of how they are formatted and within what frameworks, most especially the context of money- whereby to survive people have to make decisions that can correlate with choosing money versus love, say, as a path to existence. and thus 'those who love' yet are without money, may be without female companionship and connections while 'those with money who do not love' may have female companionship. and it is assumed for those literate, that the males and females in these situations are cognizant of their own conditions and decision-making and trade-offs involved. and so it is not ignorance and instead perhaps necessity, that females of interest are oftentimes with males essentially most concerned with themselves, firstly. while other males who serve women in their lives and actions may be living without them, though through their devotion and service seek to reestablish the lost connection. and this can be as fundamental as truth itself. truth of female existence both in its existence context, the legitimacy of feminism in a context of history, and associated politics and policies as a difficult terrain required to obtain basic changes to the structures that oppress and limit by default, though also of accompanying bias and distortions resulting from any such interactions at the level of society, breakage occurring as the gears are out of alignment across the totality of state and thus demystifying and making regular the female role as that of another constituent in a competing marketplace, as if him or her or me in any instance of the individual and the public prerogative, who gets to speak in this instance and in what frameworks. in this way, in all honesty it becomes quite clear: women can be incredibly shallow, selfish, and exploit dynamics mainly for their benefit and self-serving viewpoints, and thus error-reliant perspectives and limited interpretations can lead to classic dynamics that devolve unshared relations- and this becomes "discourse" on television as wave after wave of dysfunctional male and female dramas play out on the stage, cheating, vanity, sexual subversion, physical violence and psychological abuse. as if the television wasteland is the inner mind and what inhabits the deep hidden recesses of the unknown, locally, yet as a sign becomes a reference for given encounters. and thus the empirical aspect of the totality and its partial relation and interaction. just like the bad man, the evil woman who may seek to do harm or exploit others. and perhaps this has some relation to programming, hidden code, reading signs, literacy. just the fact that it can be acknowledged, perhaps the 'fall of woman' into a state of disgrace even, as an archetypal form that cannot be allowed to exist anymore in the corrupted society and thus she is represented by this deterioration instead. as if 'the symbol' of woman has become her antithesis, by default of a corrupt state. this involving a corrupted state of being, likewise, for humans in this context. the fracturing of higher self into lower realms of malfunctioning, merely to survive. and thus as context, the opposite of ideal: broken male <--> broken female perhaps disillusionment with reality itself, lack of choices or better options or an incapacitation due to circumstance or unknowing, and then to look across into the life of another and yet still bridge the gap via shared understanding, beyond words. that the life still resides within, there is a shared key between them, and despite everything in surrounding structures that holds them apart, if the love is there and recognized - the shared truth of the encounter and connection between them - then perhaps there is still hope that their relations survives its destruction. in the profane context, the same dynamic could occur in some sense in terms of prostitution, whereby a secure exchange could be brokered between the two via a structural agreement that establishes their relation, mediated by money, allowing access and connection. and yet it would seem in most cases pseudo-truth (pT) would be the basis for exchange and that this connection is occurring in an unshared context more likely by default, or the circuitry is misaligned in terms of a whole relation as it relates to the emotional bond between beings. and so in some sense the male may be limited and remain in their own interiority, albeit externalized via relation with another, and the female could retain herself within her own boundary, versus having these dimensions harmonized across a total circuit as happens in a grounded relation that develops over time, and thus each person can improve as part of this relation, involving shared commitment though importantly: concern for the others well being not just in the framework of the self though also in their framework, to want what is best for the person and not seek to limit or control it to support only the self. what is hypothesized is that for a male that is grounded in relation to female consciousness and truly loves women, that even without "money" a currency may exist in this as a shared truth that could be recognized by a woman, and for this example it is to retain the context of a prostitute as a dynamic range such a connection could exist within, of male whose work may seek to support the human connection and her freedom to develop as an individual, and a woman who may recognize the love this involves yet without the money to access or share this secret connection with her. and thus it is proposed that if this shared truth was recognized, and a particular form of key exchange occurred, that this same situation could be transformed by the transformation of this context of relation, whereby human intimacy could develop via this shared currency of truth, the shared idea, the belief and value, and in turn this could become sacred prostitution by comparison, a real connection between these people that involves shared keys, encrypted communication, shared awareness and grounded relation that verifies the connection. thereby neutralizing exploitation that could be inherent and allowing a new realm of connection based on this shared truth and service and connection, devotion and work and allegiance. it is to suggest that perhaps it is in the color of clothing in relation to another sign that this communication will occur, or perception of flowers of nature as the realities align, and in this way the aesthetic communication and its basis in life and love have within them this mystery and secret that carries a connection that otherwise may seem absent or entirely profane, and yet the yearning undying heart continues its work and she knows this, and thus it may be an issue of communication and the ability to relate in these terms, not as expectation, yet realization that there may be other dimensionality that is possible, given the right conditions. again, like equals in some domains, shared connection or understanding or atmosphere that correlates in special moments, this another realm of patterns, shared identity, value, principles, purpose, respect of other views and gaining understanding and knowledge likewise. in this implicit connection, what is shared is truth, what is secured is truth, what is grounded is truth between them. (that she knows you respect her, what you are doing is for her, that you care for her... that you are not trying to game and exploit her. peer-relation. human. and then perhaps, the hope of balance, the larger truth of this relation between you. such that she too may desire to secure the shared reality and support the males best for her.) in this way, erotic truth in a context of code and logical reasoning. its role in key exchange, encrypted relations, programming, hidden infrastructures. and of pattern recognition and its relation to ideas, behaviors, and social relations including onesided ideologies, structures and frameworks based on error-reliant biased code. this proposal then for the currency of erotic truth as a basis for crypto.sex relations, if thoughts and feelings similarly aligned, verified, exchange made accessible via shared agreement, within the defined parameters of relation. (in most all cases it would be up to her to initiate the potential for intimacy, secretly indicating willingness to relate within shared dimensions via pattern-based communications. are you aware of the codes she communicates within... the aesthetic domain where her insight is supreme, and where truth indeed aligns with beauty)

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Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Firefox OS with built in support for OpenPGP encryption
by Eugen Leitl 21 Sep '13

21 Sep '13

----- Forwarded message from Micah Lee <micah(a)micahflee.com> ----- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:15:54 -0700 From: Micah Lee <micah(a)micahflee.com> To: liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Firefox OS with built in support for OpenPGP encryption User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130821 Icedove/17.0.8 Reply-To: liberationtech <liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu> On 09/12/2013 04:14 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: > >> Stefan: Why not? > > For verification, OpenPGP on smartphones is *possibly* ok. For > a device used to sign or encrypt smartphones are totally > inappropriate regardless of the potential convenience. > > No such agency and the like are almost certainly able (with the > help of carriers and manufacturers) backdoor and exploit all > the major smartphone brands and models [0]. > > Smartphones are horrendously complex, rely heavily on untrusted > binary blobs, have mutiple CPUs some without direct owner/user > control (eg the CPU doing the baseband processing) [1]. > Currently these devices are impossibly difficult to secure. > > Erik > > [0] http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/privacy-scandal-nsa-can-spy-on-sm… > [1] http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/baseband-hacking-a-new-way-into-your-smartphon… I completely disagree. Ubiquitous end-to-end encryption will help protect against *dragnet* surveillance. The fact that smartphones are imminently pwnable doesn't change this fact. Even if you're using a Carrier IQ-infested/baseband backdoored device, adversaries would still need to *target* you in order to compromise your OpenPGP conversations. Saying that we shouldn't encourage OpenPGP on smartphones is like saying we shouldn't encourage it on Windows computers either. There's a big difference between encrypted internet traffic and endpoint security, and just because the endpoint isn't 100% secure doesn't mean you should give up on encrypting traffic. Undetectable, sniffing the wire eavesdropping is the preferred way that NSA and GCHQ conduct surveillance. Every time they try to hack into a laptop or smartphone they run the risk of detection. They might be really good, and detection might be very unlikely, but it's still risky because these are active attacks, and they are much more expensive than getting handed all the data passively. They can't afford to do *dragnet* endpoint attacks. There doesn't seem to be these same complaints against OTR on smartphones, and in fact Gibberbot and ChatSecure seem to be celebrated by this community, but they suffer all the same problems (and likely even more, because they run on Android and iOS) that OpenPGP built-in to Firefox OS would. For that matter, RedPhone, CSipSimple and OStel, TextSecure, and Orbot also all from running on smartphones. Should all these projects get discouraged too? At this point, nothing is completely secure. The most talented hackers I know use ThinkPads (with alleged Chinese hardware backdoors [0]) and run Debian (researchers recently crashed 1.2k Debian packages with automated fuzzing [1] -- how many of these are overflows, how many have already been systematically weaponized by the NSA?). Should we discourage people using OpenPGP on ThinkPads, or when using Debian? The best we can strive to do is make surveillance more expensive, force it to be targeted, force it to be detectable, and make the cost of spying on everyone as expensive as possible. I'm really happy to hear that Firefox OS is building end-to-end encryption tools into their phone, something that I hope all smartphone OSes copy. [0] http://www.afr.com/p/technology/spy_agencies_ban_lenovo_pcs_on_security_HVg… [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/06/msg00720.html -- Micah Lee @micahflee -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys(a)stanford.edu. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5

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