1) Thank you for making me laugh, I enjoyed reading that. You should write books.. 2) OTP, One True Pairing! also Oulun Työväen Palloilijat. :-) :-) 3) On a slightly divergent note, yes to more decentralization / free and open source stuff everywhere. More transparency, good. OK, enough buzzwords thrown about. :-) Cheers
Recently it was learned that code, crypto code at least, had become superfluous. Nothing like that protects anything, and never did. It has joined alchemy, phrenology, snake religion and astrology as a pseudo-science for TED rituals and RSA suspicion-fest, still beloved by the faithful, practiced by charlatans, funded unstoppably by DoD research and to fill a vast repository of "unbroken messages" out in Utah, a scholarly debunking topic of historical recollections of aged cryptographers and classified conferences at NSA and GCHQ to keep up appearances of once unbeatable prowess. Fort Meade being converted to a hospice for the greatest collection of mathematicians.
Decrypting computers are silently humming with nothing to crack, blowing through Megawatts of power to protect the jobs of hundreds of sysadmins and, yes, dumbfoundedly useless coders surfing for android bestiality.
Quantum computing collapsed with a whisper, never fulfilling its promise to render cryptography useless, beaten by a guy named Snowden or something who revealed that the crypto leader of the universe had arranged the end of trustworthy crypto code by rigging holes and backdoors and tricks and planting malware in every conceivable piece of machinery everywhere all the time.
Now everything electromagnetic is romantic daydreaming of what never was.
Remaining, for a while longer, is a 3x5 OTP and a pencil. For sending coded love notes up your MTM ass. Like here.
At 04:43 PM 1/18/2014, you wrote:
to the inmates: its seems we have a number of the intellectually lazy among us who either dont/wont or in some way refuse to code.. yet they wish to call themselves cypherpunks and hackers.
am I missing something here about these wannabe(s)