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richwicks
2024 Jan 21, 8:21pm
richwicks
2024 Jan 21, 8:21pm
Patrick says
If you want to talk privately, I can arrange that through my computer. I'd give you a temporary username and password, and you'd then setup your own username and password, and delete the one I gave you. I want to explain something to you at a point. We really don't need DNS at all.
Should be 10 words as well, and picked by a machine, not a person. People have a tendency to quote other people, most people are parrots. I have a password "TheBearAteATreeAndBarked". You know how often that's been written in history? Never. This is the first time you've seen it. It makes no logical sense, but it's easy to remember. Still the entropy could be higher however the phrase would require at minimum a dictionary attack.
Passwords are done wrong. People are lazy and want a short one, what they should do is aim for ludicrous phrases "Eat a bug or a hair, I like to dance with flair". That's pretty easy to remember and nobody has ever said it before, and nobody will ever say it again.
richwicks says
what I'm suggesting is contact information isn't www.patrick.net but rather something like e5725089ef32b85aa3e35d4d67c70e7f
I had a similar idea, but something which can be remembered by a human, like 4 or five words. The average person knows about 25,000 words, so four of those gives 390625000000000000 distinct combinations. That should make a sufficiently large space of four-word names that people can remember.
If you want to talk privately, I can arrange that through my computer. I'd give you a temporary username and password, and you'd then setup your own username and password, and delete the one I gave you. I want to explain something to you at a point. We really don't need DNS at all.
Should be 10 words as well, and picked by a machine, not a person. People have a tendency to quote other people, most people are parrots. I have a password "TheBearAteATreeAndBarked". You know how often that's been written in history? Never. This is the first time you've seen it. It makes no logical sense, but it's easy to remember. Still the entropy could be higher however the phrase would require at minimum a dictionary attack.
Passwords are done wrong. People are lazy and want a short one, what they should do is aim for ludicrous phrases "Eat a bug or a hair, I like to dance with flair". That's pretty easy to remember and nobody has ever said it before, and nobody will ever say it again.
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richwicks
2024 Jan 21, 8:25pm
richwicks
2024 Jan 21, 8:25pm
ad says
I'm sure it lacks polish, but that's not the point. I frequently make throw away interfaces just so I can worry about more important things than if it's pretty or not. I've got the design taste of post modern art appreciator which is to say, none.
Remember when lots of people had tiny little pages with "About Me" posted and so on, and their interests, etc? I really want to bring that back. FaceBook, YouTube, and Twitter will ALL disconnect you from a person without even notifying you. They don't allow free association.
A simple web browser that follows a few rules will prevent you from accessing much of the Internet - well, GOOD! The VAST MAJORITY of the Internet is just centralized corporate garbage. If people want to promote their website to the "real web" fine, but I think there should be a simple, easy to access, little web that doesn't require any setup other than to install a program on your computer and leave your machine running and maybe not even leave it running, the webpage can be cached on somebody's machine that recently visited your site.
I am using NetSurf now. Seems rather crude or overly simple, but it is fast and does not crash.
I'm sure it lacks polish, but that's not the point. I frequently make throw away interfaces just so I can worry about more important things than if it's pretty or not. I've got the design taste of post modern art appreciator which is to say, none.
Remember when lots of people had tiny little pages with "About Me" posted and so on, and their interests, etc? I really want to bring that back. FaceBook, YouTube, and Twitter will ALL disconnect you from a person without even notifying you. They don't allow free association.
A simple web browser that follows a few rules will prevent you from accessing much of the Internet - well, GOOD! The VAST MAJORITY of the Internet is just centralized corporate garbage. If people want to promote their website to the "real web" fine, but I think there should be a simple, easy to access, little web that doesn't require any setup other than to install a program on your computer and leave your machine running and maybe not even leave it running, the webpage can be cached on somebody's machine that recently visited your site.
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People seem to INSIST on using cloud storage, which removes your ability of privacy, so I'm going to write a strong encryption program using the NaCL librarary;
https://nacl.cr.yp.to/
The goal here is that the resulting encrypted data is impossible to recover without getting the original key. Keys are changed regularly, and being able to brute force one block will give the attacker no advantage in cracking the next block.
Also, it will be computationally expensive to attempt to crack even with specialized hardware. This increases energy consumption and slows down the encryption and decryption, but also will make brute force attacks 1000's of times slower.