@SEJPM Well the Xeons with FPGAs are neat, but they probably just expose the FPGA as a virtual device on the PCIe root hub or something.
@bdegnan Whirlpool is a Miyaguchi-Preneel hash with a block cipher based on Rijndael. If you're building from silicon, you can use the same hardware for it.
@bdegnan Ew, how nasty. Go get funding from a less evil community.
Perhaps from a group like the Zetas. They're a fair bit less evil.
Anyone have any tips as to why my answer here may have been downvoted? If there's something wrong with it, I don't recognize what it is. The downvoter declined to say why
No issues for me. But, I've seen in StackOverflow when high reputation users answered a simple question some other high reputation users gave -1 and warn. Maybe similar?
The Largest Arbitrary RSA Modulo Cracked using a Pure/Undiluted/Reference Implementation of Shor's Algorithm as of 13th Dec 2018 is 2048 bits. RSA-2048 stands cracked. Please see the demo of the implementation which was used in cracking RSA - 2048 https://vimeo.com/306770425
lol
From the video:
> All Existing Cryptography 'is hereby' cracked. It 'can' and 'will' be cracked by Automatski's Customers of this Solution.
I have a feeling they don't understand that quantum computer simulators on classical computers are actually not that fast. :D
Purchase RSA 2048 bit cracking software. For US$ 10bn/license/year email us on info@automatski.com we need the money, you need what you need, for reasons which we don't want to know. we won't judge you ;-) no questions asked none answered. #cryptocurrency #campaign #funding
I love how they straight up say that their quantum simulator can break RSA 2048 in mere days on a couple low-end machines. They don't even pretend to have a QC.
> One of the earliest breakthroughs at Automatski Fundamental Research has been to (i) discover the working of the Human Mind and Brain, Consciousness and Soul, and explain Heaven, Hell, Rebirth, Consciousness etc.
lol
> to explain the Begining, Evolution and End of the Universe also explaining everything like Blackholes, Worm Holes, Space-Time, The Creation of Time, Particle-Wave Duality, Matter-Antimatter, Dark Matter, Dark Energy etc. without any contradictions in a single theory.
@forest Well, I have to go where the money is. I was doing ICs on 14nm in 2013/2014, and that's not cheap. I tend to run the largest research groups by money around, and it's just me. I'm sort of out of the bleeding edge IC design world. I'm back to 130nm just because I can pay for it out of pocket. My multipliers are just as power efficient at 130nm as their 32nm counterparts, so I think that I might have a good path here too.
Btw, both Hasler and Sarpeshkar have 18-cubit equivalent machines that are just analog solvers for Schroedinger's equation. It probably doesn't count as "quantum" because they run at room temperature, but the math is the same.
@bdegnan I sure hope you don't work for the... less ethical areas of IC.
(murderers, kidnappers, spies, traitors, etc)
hm
The one thing I don't like that much about crypto and EE is how many psychopaths are attracted to a community of near-infinite malevolence like the IC. It repulses me.
I've done some extremely unethical things for money in the past as a blackhat but even I would never stoop so low as to work with the them or their ilk.
@forest I work for myself, and I get the money from whomever has a problem. There is no such thing as a responsible government entity. When you need 30M a year to do your research, you get it from the only place that has the money. I am solidly "chaotic neutral". Also, working with the NSA's SIMON team was really interesting. They are just mathematicians who saw a problem. Also, none of them used AES to encrypt anything, so that was an interesting take away. Curve25519 was a fav too.
> "At Automatski, we have Revolutionized Deep Learning by creating the 'Universal' 'Turing Complete' Deep Learning Algorithm based on An Universal Approximation Function. (The - One Human Brain One Universal Algorithm For Everything Hypothesis)." - Founders, Automatski
@forest That's why my hardware uses Curve25519, SIMON and random number generator based on physics. I've been trying to make a good hash function out of SIMON with mixed success because it needs to all fit on a passively-powered RFID chip.
> Simply Put We Make Cyber Weapons Of Global Scale Cyber Warfare. The Term Offensive Security Does Not Do Justice In Describing What We Do. [...] There Are No Hackers Or Any Individuals In What We Offer To Do. We Are Not Script Kiddies And We Do Not Use Tools To Execute Attacks.
The best part?
> "Cyberwarfare is a war that needs to be fought like an integrated war in 5 dimensions" - Founders, Automatski
@kelalaka These are the guys claiming to be able to simulate Shor's algorithm on a classic computer to break RSA 2048 with only a few gigs of RAM! :D
> "We are dealing with 'Impossible Missions' and Going Where No Man Has Gone Before in the last 32,000 years. There is no other better way to do this than The Automatski Way." - Founders, Automatski
> Nobody should have any knowledge of the internals of The Firm. There will never be any Patents Filed, Papers Published, or Public Disclosures of our Inventions. Everything will remain Propreitary for the next 1000+ years.
@SEJPM I haven't looked but I'm sure it would be possible to tell with some sleuthing.
> All our theories and models should fit in the brain. And then we simulate them there, sleep, meditate and go into a trance. We solve a problem in our minds using our superior mental models, and only when convinced we put in the effort of doing it the conventional way.
Wow Proxima Centauri!
> "Our Mission Is Not To Goto The Moon Or Mars. Our Mission Is A Millennium Space Mission To Goto Proxima Centuari And Deep Into Space. The Former Will Be A Low Hanging Fruit Side Product Of Our Efforts." - Founders, Automatski
> Our Gravity based energy generators will power our Crafts in Deep Space.
> We Were Done For In The Late 90's. We Battled Infinite Odds To Make A Come Back In 2014 CE" - Founders, Automatski
And these guys somehow convinced some poor sap that RSA 2048 is broken.
I hate these things such as the "side effects" pictures by the way. They seem ever so informing, but are they really? Or are they just a symmetrically written down lists? Why would every leaf have exactly 3 items in it? Between annoyance and interest there is agrEEssiveness? Yep, they are Indian, that's an Indian grammar mistake if I ever saw one.
@forest "Hi I'm a billionaire, but I'm not quite convinced of your product yet, can you please demo it by cracking this RSA-2048 key: <pastes DNSSEC root private key>? Thanks!"
and then to "confirm your identity" post a link to some public profile of an actual billionaire and claim you're "emailing under disguise to not be traced back by malicious ESPs"
> "Successfully Creating Artificial General Intelligence and Designing and Creating other Living Organisms, will make us Demi God's closers to the Real Gods. Sadly they might be our last inventions." - Founders, Automatski
> ... has been Solved. 7 NP-Complete & 4 NP-Hard Problems have been solved by us in Polynomial Time and some in Logarithmic Time." - Founders, Automatski
To make thinks believable you have to ask for lots of money, especially if your solution is so hard to imagine. We expect high prices for high end solutions, so if we are asked to pay a high price then we assume it is for a high end solution. But 100M or over is just madness.
@sejpm I'm not sure this silliness fits under the scope of the cited meta thread. Citing (thoroughly wrong) work by cranks/snake oil salesmen is not "conspiracy theory" from what I can gather
That's not really a "conspiracy", e.g. people aren't planning in secret for nefarious purposes. Unless you count the snake oil salesmen angle as conspiring in secret to rip people off. But then "conspiracy theory" would apply to all snake oil salesmen, which really doesn't seem accurate
@sejpm umm except you explicitly stated that any such flags will be declined and it will not be deleted?
Although letting it sit at -7 would also clearly show disapproval... I was tempted.
Worst case: somebody could repost the same.
@kelalaka Beware that a nick is just that. It may be somebody trying to spam us under a well trusted name. Actually, I think that is very likely, all the more reason to delete.
Let's put it at 50/50. Apologies to Rajeem if it is really him :)
It is absolutely wild how much nonsense people believe and justify under three things: Spirit channeling, remote viewing (or astral projection), and quantum "consciousness".
For example, now that we're in the era of cameras always being in our pockets and know just how far away other stars are, people will say that aliens have minds "in a higher dimension" and warp into lower dimensions when they want to contact random people.
It might be a trend away from "UFO" space craft claims. People believe they are receiving visions. And it's real convenient that visions don't appear on camera.
I like to think I could explain to people if this type of magic disguised as physics actually worked then computer scientists would be the first people to try to put it to practical use. And of course academics in general would study it to learn more, even if it uprooted a whole bunch of scientific fields.
If prayer worked? Then we would have a new O(1) algorithm to solve the traveling salesman problem. If free markets worked? You could build a super computer that solves all optimization problems instantly with communication between cores and every single core trying to maximize their performance by their own maximizing power use.
It sounds like those people want you to think they can factor semiprimes by using some kind of channeling or meditation to retrieve knowledge from The Universe.
Nope. I'm not saying computer scientists are immune to magic believing. Just that at least one of us would have gotten pseudo-science stuff to work for us if impossible things were really that simple.
Actually, I think I'm straw-manning religion. Prayer doesn't have to be O(1). You might need to sacrifice more goats if the number of cities in TSP increases.
The Largest Arbitrary RSA Modulo Cracked using a Pure/Undiluted/Reference Implementation of Shor's Algorithm as of 13th Dec 2018 is 2048 bits. RSA-2048 stands cracked. Please see the demo of the implementation which was used in cracking RSA - 2048 https://vimeo.com/306770425
