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Comment · 2 months ago
> Let's keep the thread coherent: the original claim

How do you save your poisoned wine? A hybrid with 1024 is made less trustworthy if the NSA pushes 1024 alone, since then we know that they want customers to use 1024 alone, which is what they would want if it was weak. But they know that we would know that, so if they really want to help us they should withdraw the draft. If it was strong but we know why, they shouldn't want to make us doubt ourselves. If it is strong (and 512 and 768 are not) they can't tell us, and can only subtly point to their own double encryption and security level documents. The only move that can cover all the cases is a hybrid with 1024, so this draft is a bad standard.

Comment · 2 months ago
Yes, they trick me and I pick the poisoned wine... But wait, no, I used a hybrid. Imagine the code can't be backdoored (it's proven not to crash/be slow/be exploitable) so at worst it can make the security no better. At best, the NSA knows a whole new subfield of cryptography (from history: differential cryptanalysis) and it really is more secure.

They laugh at us while we try to think of how 1024 is better than 768: "bigger is better, right?" "does 1024 refer to the number of years it takes Nightmare Moon to break the code?"

Comment · 2 months ago
There is no public reason to think that 1024 is better than 768, or DJB's S-NTRU-P 761. The NSA might know something, but we can't trust them. So, use a hybrid, in case they are really just trying to protect us.
Comment · 2 months ago
> NSA, by the way, rescued DES from differential cryptography, the core mechanism by which block ciphers and hash functions have been attacked ever since

That's why you use ML-KEM 1024 at all... As part of a hybrid.

Comment · 3 months ago
Someone at MIRI must know how to solve this. Good luck getting them to tell you how!
Comment · 4 months ago
Robin Hanson on the first, incentivized with the ability to sell shares in your child.
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Is there something up with your Twitter account?
Comment · 5 months ago
There are no humans in the culture. AIs run everything and control thoughts. The humanoid aliens of the culture all commit suicide.
Comment · 6 months ago
No the cartoon character. It's part of an awful series of AI jokes, maybe don't look it up. There's a (2011? "new") show for 9 year old girls that has most of the characters female, so God (Celestia) is a woman. Or a horse really. I haven't watched it. I don't think Luna or Celestia were in the old show.
Comment · 6 months ago
> kinda how I feel about god tbh

That's Celestia, we're talking about Luna here.

Comment · 7 months ago
Robin Hanson thinks they should. He makes a comparison to the (public company) Morton-Thiokol trading minutes after the shuttle explosion. Insider trading (allowed on future markets) would have let that price move before the explosion.
Comment · 8 months ago
The Hello page is very wrong. Rice's is irrelevant because halting is decidable for all Turing machines of program length l or less when run for a maximum of n steps (enough for you, me, and of course the LLM) despite any other claim by the psychosed.
Comment · 9 months ago
Everything needs to be on paper.
Comment · 9 months ago
Why is it FUD? It's a real thing any competent programming team could implement.

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