Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@icedquinn

Especially when the one asking is not one who the information was originally disclosed to.

@lupyuen

Apparently, symmetric-key algorithms and hash functions are safe (with a large enough key) but public-key algorithms are vulnerable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography

@rlamacraft

<"Do people think meeting ministers and diplomats, meeting the public, and attending events is all fun?"

Beats cleaning toilets.

@freemo

Are you sure you're not a dyslexual?

@kmic

That one probably needed a CW (content warning).

@mc

I just noticed that the star of movie was Kevin Mccarthy. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

(I spelled McCarthism wrong in the original toot. It shoud be spelled the same way as the actor's name.)

@mc

I think you were responding to the body snatcher film toot, but your response ended up in the local feed not attached to the original toot.

@peterdrake

Here's a direct quote from the biggest Trump supporter there is...

"He lost and let us down,"
"I've never liked him as much after that."
"I don't like losers..."

Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/18/424169549/trump-lashes-out-at-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured

#COVID19 #respirator #mask #vax #vaccine #corruption #USA

A million people just died in the US who didn’t need to die because authorities withheld information about the effectiveness of respirators and mislead everyone into doing risky, dangerous things that killed them.

What happens next?

@lucifargundam @Acer

Okay. I tried looking at it from a distance thinking that that is what is was, but it didn't work.

I just now displayed it in mono font and now it is clear.

#2that

@lucifargundam

What is this thing, this graphic thing you posted to this thread?

I don't get it.

@Acer

It’s simple, it seems, the Golden Rule
Understood by all, even a fool
But not so fast, think this through
You don’t want to be the fool, too
There’s more to the story, even in its simplest
Imagine reciprocation with a devoted masochist.

#golden
#MastoPrompt
#SmallPoems
#Poetry

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #space #firstcontact #technology #future #film #movie #red #scare #1950s #commies #aliens #paranoia #witch #hunt #USSR #party #time #McCarthyism #hollywood

Retro SciFi of the Week…

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Released during the height of MacCarthyism when many in Hollywood and government had lost their jobs and half the country was in a furor trying to find “subversives” under every rock, this film reflected the popular mood during that time. However, the other half of the country was appalled at the witch hunters for trampling on civil rights.

It’s uncertain whether the film was advocating for the witch hunt or mocking it. The filmmakers continued to deny that it was anything more than a thriller science fiction flim.

@trinsec @sturgman

The "xxd -r -p poem.enc" converts the hex into binary, which gets fed into the "openssl des" for decryption.

@aworldinpages

If your problem is insomnia, that'll work.

@trinsec @sturgman

If there are any cryptographers lurking on this thread, they know that this is not my area of expertise, either. I really don’t know much about it. That’s one of the reasons why I did this, as a fun way to learn a little bit about it.

If you want to decrypt the poem, just copy the cipher text into a file named “poem.enc” and, from a command line type:

xxd -r -p poem.enc | openssl des -d -k simple

I think most of the major distros use openssl as default. If not, it should work with whatever tool you got. (You may need to specify CBC as the block-chain mode if it’s not already the default, and sha256 as the hash algorithm).

One thing I’m not sure of though is how the initialization vector is generated, if that’s a standard algorithm in all tools or not. But even if the IV is different it will still decrypt everything except the first block (which is part of the the title of the poem), and I already gave out the poem title anyway.

(If anyone sucessfully decrypts it, feel free to post it here under a CW.)

(CW=content warning)

@peterdrake

Makes sense to me. (I'm dyslexic.)