Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@lupyuen

Congratulations!

@2ck

If you're worried about bugs, you probaby want to keep them around. They eat tons of flying insects.

Sonnet 154

The little Love-god lying once asleep
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vow’d chaste life to keep
Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that #fire
Which many legions of true hearts had warm’d;
And so the general of hot desire
Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm’d.
This brand she quenched in a cool well by,
Which from Love’s fire
took heat perpetual,
Growing a bath and healthful remedy
For men diseas’d; but I, my mistress’ thrall,
Came there for cure, and this by that I prove,
Love’s fire heats water, water cools not love.

- William Shakespeare

#MastoPrompt
#SmallPoems
#Poetry

@tanweerdar@mstdn.social

I just blocked a guy on qoto for trolling.

@ercadio

We've never interacted, so I'm going to give you chance to explain yourself.

#stupidity #ignorance #disrespect #grammar #words #language

In most cases, those who use the phrase “be like” are either ignorant or mentally challenged, or they are being mockingly derisive toward those who are.

@trinsec @sturgman

Another hint…

When I say that it’s simple, I’m not referring to SDES (Simplified Data Encryption Standard). That’s too simple, it uses a 10-bit key and I don’t think it even uses a hash of a password – I don’t believe it can even use a password. It is simple because it’s used for teaching purposes. The cipher I used for the poem is one which has been used in the wild for real encryption purposes.

(That’s a big hint.)

@trinsec @sturgman

I posted at that thread:
https://qoto.org/@Pat/108315113380923217

@lucifargundam

Customer satisfaction survey;

How likely are you to recommend this hemorrhoid cream to a friend or colleague?

@sturgman @trinsec

I added a public toot with a content warning that contains those hints and more, so that other folks can see it they want to, under the CW.

@Pat: >That's right, it's hex. And you see by looking at those hexadecimal values right at the beginning it says, "Salted". That gives a lot of information. You know that it uses a key, so it's not just substitution. It uses an encryption algorithm, and that the key was derived from a password+salt, which means you can't use a rainbow table because salt was added to the password. But I said it was simple. (Note: In the wild, the relationship between the person protecting the data and the person trying to crack the encryption is adversarial and the former would avoid providing information to the latter, or might provide misleading info, but in this case I'm not misleading you. Trust me. ) So what makes this one so easy?

@sturgman:
>" the word Salted is withouta key, right? It is just direct translation to ASCII. I didn't try the rest of it."

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The salt is needed by the decryption process in order to make the key when the user supplies the password, so the salt needs to be in the clear. Or else the user would need to supply the salt and the password. Is that simple? I don’t know if it is easier to let the hash algorithm generate a random salt and store it at the beginning or for the user to supply a salt with the password when they encrypt and decrypt. I think the former is easier, so if it’s simple, then yes the salt in there in the clear.

@trinsec

@sturgman

Oh, I see now. I didn't notice the status type icon was different on those. That's probably why I couldn't reply to those directly from the thread (I had go to my notifications feed to respond to them.)

Thanks for letting me know.

#qoto

I've run across a weird anomaly on qoto. In the thread (https://qoto.org/@Pat/108268273392855454), user @sturgman posted a couple toots but those toots don’t show up in that user’s profile page when I click “toots and replies”.

@trinsec

Did those websites provide any useful information at all?

No one can figure this out? Too easy? Too hard?

Aren’t there any cryptanalysts out there?

Come on, it’s simple…

#lunar #eclipse #2022 #shadowgraphy #handshadows #New Zealand

I just asked an acquaintance of mine who lives in New Zealand to go up a nearby hill during the sunrise and hold his hands up and make shadow puppets to see if I could see them on the moon from the US as the eclipse waned.

Didn’t work.

@lupyuen @trinsec

I swear my typo in the word "electicity" above was unintentional. 🤔

@CPhase @sergio_101

No instances of any consequence block qoto, so your toots will be seen.

#electric #car #EV #gas #petrol #russia #war #ukraine #money #inflation #nordstream2 #oil #nato

I just filled up my electric car... It cost me $1.67, that's $1.67 total cost of electicity to completely fill it up.