Ah, it’s tulpa.

What’s that thing where you construct a mental version of someone that takes on a life of its own inside your head? I’d be scared of accidentally creating one of Trump.

You could always try info

That makes it a bit more clear. Thanks so much for writing that up!

Huh, so I take it from the other comments here that Kent isn’t entirely correct? Is there a summary of the back and forth so far?

Every manufacturer includes the Microsoft secure boot key in their firmware. I’m not sure if any manufacturer includes a Linux-specific key. So Microsoft signed a bootloader with their key, enabling secure boot to work with Linux without having to load another key onto every device.

How does it compare to keycloak?

I believe saying something like “compatible with Nintendo Wii games” would be acceptable (as a normative use), but IANAL.

Gentoo? With 4GB of RAM? That sounds like a challenge!

It’s also 36 years old. I think we can cut it some slack 🤣

Hey, IRC was federated before federation was cool.

Gentoo nerds represent!

Yeah, that feels like a really weird choice.

One critical benefit of the rubber duck is that it doesn’t make things up.

You obviously haven’t seen me rubber duck debug.

Dick

A cryptocurrency without crypto is just a currency then?

Regardless of whether it’s eroding trust in cryptography today, I still assert it was a reasonable choice when the term was coined. Cryptocurrency depends fundamentally on cryptography.

just because it uses sha256 as it’s proof of work doesn’t make it crypto, as it was essentially picked out of a hat.

You could probably switch proof-of-work to use some non-cryptographic primitive with similar properties (maybe protein folding?) and it would still serve the same purpose, ignoring the economic problems. I will concede that point.

Bitcoin still cannot function without cryptography. Each UTXO is bound to a particular key pair. Each block refers to its parent using a hash. If either of those were switched to a non-cryptographic primitive, there would be no way to authenticate the owner of a UTXO, nor would there be a way to prove the ordering of blocks. Removing cryptography from cryptocurrency would make it entirely useless as a currency.

And for the signing of transactions, are we going to start calling bank checks crypto?

Banks existed for a thousand years without the existence of cryptography. If you removed cryptography from RCS, you’d still have the rest of the standard for messaging.

I hate to be that guy, but Bitcoin uses elliptic curve cryptography to sign transactions, and SHA256 is definitely in the field of cryptography. While cryptocurrency isn’t purely cryptography, it is cryptography plus economics. Borrowing the “crypto” prefix, at least in my opinion, is reasonable.

This is a government office. A government should be able to build the technical knowledge required to keep a private signing key secure.

I do agree that individual-to-individual cryptography is more difficult, but how often do you need to check the authenticity of a document from a friend or acquaintance, digital or otherwise?

Cryptography and PKI makes it pretty feasible to authenticate digital documents.