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Are current predominant cryptographic functions the most optimal?
by Ryan Carboni 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

The AES round function for instance is not the most optimal, just altering add round key (Transposition of AES Key Schedule) can significantly improve security. While cryptanalyzing one cipher is hard enough, cryptoanalyzing any minor change in construction would be very difficult. Times have changed since the only good cipher was DES, and cryptographers were examining alternative DES constructions such as Ladder-DES proposed on sci.crypt. It was a good thing that the Threefish team had to justify their design decisions since it was very hard to prove security for an ARX cipher. It still becomes an open question as to whether current knowledge is being applied most optimally. Just how much additional security does a tweakable block cipher provide? Would Madryga even be secure under a tweak construction? Would a CBC-MAC be immune to Simon’s algorithm if it was truncated? Wouldn't for wide block encryption, instead of Bear and Lion, be better to just use an envelope MAC over the plaintext and use half of the MAC output as the encryption key and the other half as the MAC? Actually ZFS does something similar.... A search for "zfs" on iacr doesn't reveal anything. Could the Simon cipher use a stronger 3 to 1 function? Reuse the same function for the key schedule? Just how many NSA key schedules did Bruce Schneier see? Should be about four. He's impressed with all four of them. Impressive.

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United videos prove there's no chilling effect of surveillence
by Ryan Carboni 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

A police officer surrounded by cameras decided to bash a passenger's head against an armrest. https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/10/24/jim-comey-describes-the-dangerous-chi… Police brutality certainly hasn't gone down, don't you want police to be more cautious in interacting with the public?

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Quantum Computing
by jim bell 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/quantum-computing-going-commercial-potential-123… [partial quote follows] Science Quantum Computing Is Going Commercial With the Potential to Disrupt Everything Consider three hair-pulling problems: 1 percent of the world’s energy is used every year just to produce fertilizer; solar panels aren’t powerful enough to provide all the power for most homes; investing in stocks often feels like a game of Russian roulette.Those seemingly disparate issues can be solved by the same tool, according to some scientists: quantum computing. Quantum computers use superconducting particles to perform tasks and have long been seen as a luxury for the top academic echelon—far removed from the common individual. But that’s quickly changing.IBM had been dabbling with commercial possibilities when last year it released Quantum Experience, a cloud-based quantum computing service researchers could use to run experiments without having to buy a quantum system. In early March, IBM took that program further and announced IBM Q, the first cloud quantum computing system for commercial use. Companies will be able to buy time on IBM’s quantum computers in New York state, though IBM has not set a release date or price, and it is expected to be financially prohibitive for smaller companies at first.Trending: U.S. Warships Rerouted Toward Korean Peninsula to 'Maintain Readiness'Jarrod McClean, a computing sciences fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, says the announcement is exciting because quantum computing wasn’t expected to hit commercial markets for decades. Last year, some experts estimated commercial experimentation could be five to 40 years away, yet here we are, and the potential applications could disrupt the way pharmaceutical companies make medicine, the way logistics companies schedule trains and the way hedge fund managers gain an edge in the stock market. “We’re seeing more application areas start to develop all the time, now that people are looking at quantum,” McClean says.Quantum computing is as different from traditional computing as an abacus is from a MacBook. “Classical computing was [invented] in the 1940s. This is like [that creation], but even beyond it,” says Scott Crowder, IBM Systems vice president and chief technology officer of quantum computing, technical strategy and transformation. “Take everything you know about how a class of computers works and forget it.” Besting supercomputers Quantum computers are made up of parts called qubits, also known as quantum bits. On some problems, they leverage the strange physics of quantum mechanics to work faster than chips on a traditional computer. (Just as a plane cannot exactly compare to a race car, a classical computer will still be able to do some things better than quantum, and vice versa. They’re just different.)Explaining how qubits work requires jumping into quantum mechanics, which doesn’t follow the same rules of physics we’re used to in our everyday lives. Quantum entanglement and quantum superposition are particularly important; they defy common sense but take place only in environments that are incredibly tiny. [end of partial quote] Jim Bell ×

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RiseUp Warrant Canary Falls
by Dr. Dooom 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

> Rachael Tackett ractack at mail.com > Sun Apr 9 16:42:27 PDT 2017 > > A document, which I public records requested, shows LEAP > and RiseUp getting a quarter million dollars from the > Digital Defenders Partnership, which is funded by US > government and several European governments. RiseUp is in Seattle, Tor is in Seattle, and both are CIA/Mossad properties. I wonder what's going on in Seattle ?

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Riseup Warrant Canary Falls?
by grarpamp 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

Status update... https://riseup.net/en/about-us/press/canary-statement https://0xacab.org/riseuplabs/trees

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[WAR] "The West" has become "the barbarians at the gate"
by Zenaan Harkness 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

Whilst Soros and the CIA have done a very admirable job of keeping the sheeple focused on one big problem (government mandated and financially assisted (with stolen "tax" dollars refugee (from Western wars) immigration (some would call it Jihad)), the true problem is the West itself - a seemingly unstoppable neocon military empire smashing down the gates of the world's nations for its own financial and hegemonic control interests. "We", as in "citizens of 'the West'" have become the barbarians at the gates of history. We trample human rights, human dignity and anything resembling any cause higher than money, murder and control. Our young "men" almost universally pick up a gun, jump on a plane, and obey every order to "shoot that brown person" in any foreign land they're dumped in. The rest of the sheeple don't rebel in any meaningful way. Trump surrounded himself with (((neocon rubes))) from the "leading financial and military powerhouses" and is now very close to completely backtracking on the last of his election promises (no, not the almost irrelevant ones like building a wall). ** Laughter Over the Left Shoulder at Russia’s Tragedy http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Valeria Z. Nollan on Sat, Apr 8, 2017 The recent appearance in some Western media sources of insults, jokes, and unfounded accusations in response to tragedies affecting the Russian people is shocking in its coarseness and barbarity, disturbing in its lack of compassion for fellow human beings, and irresponsible in its professional ethics. ** Reuters: Russia, Iran Joint Command Center Will 'Respond With Force' If US Strikes Syria Again http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413c… ------------------------------------------------------------ by RI Staff on Sun, Apr 9, 2017 DEVELOPING A joint command center used by Russia, Iran and allied forces has issued a statement saying that red lines have been crossed in Syria and that there will be retaliation if they are crossed again. While multiple sources report this, we think it's unlikely the Russians formally signed off on this statement. Independent: Russia and Iran have warned the US they will "respond with force" if their own "red lines" are crossed in Syria. ** Trump's National Security Advisor Planning 'Full-Scale War' in Syria http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413c… ------------------------------------------------------------ by RI Staff on Sun, Apr 9, 2017 According to independent journalist Mike Cernovich, National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster is trying to get Trump to sign off on a plan that would put 150,000 US troops on the ground in Syria. According to Cernovich: ** Report: US Boots on the Ground in Syria by June http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413c… ------------------------------------------------------------ by RI Staff on Sun, Apr 9, 2017 UPDATE: According to Cernovich, US boots on the ground wouldn't be for "safe zones" — Trump's National Security Advisor wants "full-scale war". The Pentagon has drawn up plans for more boots on the ground in Syria by June or sooner, according to independent journalist Mike Cernovich. US Special Forces are already operating in northern Syria, and "hundreds" of US marines have been deployed near Raqqa to assist with the assault on ISIS' capital. ** BREAKING: Trump administration threatens new sanctions on Russia and Iran http://theduran.com/breaking-trump-administration-threatens-new-sanctions-o… ------------------------------------------------------------ South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley speaks at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention, Friday, Nov. 18, 2016, in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) Nikki Haley spoke on behalf of Donald Trump. ** Is Donald Trump more dangerous than Barack Obama? http://theduran.com/is-donald-trump-more-dangerous-than-barack-obama/ ------------------------------------------------------------ obama trump Barack Obama was the deep state's middle manager. Donald Trump is looking increasingly like the deep state's lap dog. ** General McMaster provides technical corroboration for Russian version of Syrian gas attack http://theduran.com/mcmaster-syrian-gas-attack-russia-corroboration/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Mc Master President Trump's National Security Adviser General H.R. McMaster contradicting British experts admits bombing chemical warfare storage facility can release sarin gas as Russia claims happened during Syrian air strike on Khan Sheikhoun.

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Riseup Warrant Canary Falls?
by Dr. Dooom 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

> Razer g2s at riseup.net > Sun Apr 9 07:53:10 PDT 2017 > > Hushmail captcha panel I have no such limitations, my friend > tor is... A tool by and for the "fybeyz".

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Why I just left reddit.
by Dr. Dooom 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

> No nonomos at mail.com > Sun Apr 9 07:47:28 PDT 2017 > > quitter.no (gnusocial) A gnu site that need JS to function. Gnu are a fucking faggot. And so is mirimir for thinking it's "cool". Theft, snitching, and now shilling... rayzer-war,juan+honesty,jamesdonald-degeneracy are the only moral sentiments remaining this list.

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the Janssen Scale of Delusion
by Dr. Dooom 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

> juan juan.g71 at gmail.com > Sat Apr 8 15:57:53 PDT 2017 > > fucking moses didn't fucking exist Fucking proove it.

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Why I just left reddit.
by Dr. Dooom 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

> Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net > Sat Apr 8 15:39:34 PDT 2017 > > Mirimir is just a persona, for VPN stuff. Yet you post your reddit cancer here. > I have many other personas As is expected from a list full of dishonesty.

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