We got a new Curve25519 successor proposal

made by Microsoft, it should be 4x-5x faster than P-256 and 2x-3x faster than Curve25519 on Ivy Bridge+

eprint.iacr.org/2015/565.pdf

Looks pretty similar to snowshoe at a glance. Defined over (2^127-1)^2 and using endomorphisms.

@CodesInChaos Thanks for the heads-up! Geez… otoh, I guess I just found out what I’m going to dig into for the rest of this weekend. /* Looks at smartcard reader and wallet full of those thingies. */ ;)

Grrr… There seems to be a problem connecting to the server. Please check your internet connection and reload this page. – Guess that’s the nice description for “your ISP sucks.”

@e-sushi double send intentional?

@SEJPM Not really… network hickup. I’ll clean that up a bit with an edit. |]

@e-sushi e-sushi.net :O didn't even know this existed.

your marketing strategy seems not to work :P

@e-sushi Sure it hasn't been a DoS attack on your end?

noooo, I have been mentioned in a "(removed)" message D:

@SEJPM Yep, you’re part of history now. ;)

(This connection is killing me… lemme switch it – brb)

@e-sushi should the link show me anything besides a "page-not-found" error?

And I can't even reach https://e-sushi.net without getting three security errors :(

@SEJPM You get a 404? Crazy system… probably a “rights” thing. This is what I see:

Guess the screeny merely proves how editing can go wrong when the network you’re using doesn’t have its best day.

I think you can actually read this because you're a mod.

HTML doesn't work here :(

You know what rogerparker.com, cootspark.com and scarlettswhisper.com are?

@SEJPM Could be. At least you know I’m not crazy, not hiding anything special. ;)

@SEJPM Shared server… those belong to someone else. I only hold the e-sushi domain and kokeshi-lady.com – Don’t judge; my girl wanted something in pink. Btw: if you really need to look at it, wear some sunglasses. You‘ve been warned! ;)

@e-sushi Well, your HTTPS cert is self-signed, not valid for e-sushi.net, and expired a few days ago

@SEJPM HTTPS? Who am I? Stackexchange? ;)

@e-sushi At least they've got a good excuse. Making a three-level domain hierachy (meta.*.stackexchange.com, *.stackexchange.com stackexchange.com) work is hard if you have ~150 domains. getting a bunch of cheap StartSSL certs isn't.

Yep. Honestly, it just didn’t really make sense to add SSL to a cheapy-tiny shared server package… especially since the site doesn’t collect any info via forms or stuff. And if, I would’ve grabbed myself a dedicated server. But for a tiny site nobody really cares about – “simple logic defeated the need for investment”. ;)

@e-sushi Well, after seeing the results I wouldn't trust the provider anyway too much with TLS.

@SEJPM Hehe… I know. Trust me, they’re even worse than the first impression. (Imagine your site going down and some Russian Pills site pop up instead.)

Actually, almost forgot about it, but something related once made me stumble upon StackExchange and post my first first security and first crypto questions, to be sure I wasn’t missing something.

Honestly, the only good things I could say about them are: my site is still up (most of the time) and their fails made me discover the StackExchange network. Hmmm… looking a those timestamps, I’m starting to ask myself why I still didn’t switch my webhost.

@e-sushi you could use CloudFlare for better availability...

@SEJPM Just dumped them about two hours ago. (Fiddling with tiny things, the cloudflare cache – even though configurable to a nice extend – just got too anoying for my taste. But there were some other things I didn’t like besides that. Yet, all that’s probably just me…)

@e-sushi OMG, you actually made a "thx" comment D:

@SEJPM Yeah, and I would probably be tempted to closed my own questions from my current point of view. 8) How times change perspectives… I still tend to drop a tnx every now and then though.

@e-sushi I think they're OK in chat, but the info text for comments on posts ( = questions and answers) actually tells you not to "abuse" comments just to say "thanks". Quote: "Avoid comments like "+1" or thanks."

@SEJPM Alrighty… good time to clean that old stuff up a bit. Guess I now owe you a TNX too for reminding me of those good, old times. ;)

@e-sushi Have fun cleaning your 32 (=2^5 :O ) questions up :)

:24477494

@e-sushi Try to decipher the given block of data :P (off-topic here D: )

(spoiler: the answer will be 011110010110010101110011)

01001001010011110101010100110000

(xor by 1 off course)

@e-sushi damn OTPs D:

@SEJPM No no, it’s a 32bit block cipher with cyclic movements in the dark so that the Not So Anonymous ops team has something to chew on. 8}

@e-sushi Noooo, real ciphertext, my only weakness D:

@SEJPM Just wait until I mix in some noisufnoc and sidionffu.

@e-sushi You implemted the prinicples correctly in those words? I think you made a mistake with noisufnoc, it should rather be something like "Pbashfvba" (-> substitution instead of transposition)

@SEJPM Ugh, I hadn’t expected a pro adversary… lol… give me a sec for my braincells to regroup (it’s friday after all – at least, where I’m located).

@e-sushi It's good that I always have my HAC at hand :)

>! :)

can we take this as a meme: critizing people for really minor things as part of our crypto culture?