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Re: About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA key

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Post by Adlai »

ikeboy wrote: post #20
Adlai wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wealth. Most of the publicly known early adopters don't spend as much (or any) time trolling about (and getting trolled) on IRC. http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Amircea_popescu

Do we know how much he's actually worth?

His >50% MPOE[1] stake is at least 1.4 million coins (valuated by the last trade).

If you're skeptical of numbers on webpages (c.f. "EmptyGox"), MPEx's trivially traceable addresses[2] currently contain around five thousand coins; tracking down the rest is left as an exercise for the skeptical sleth.

[1] http://mpex.ws/?mpsic=S.MPOE

[2] https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/MPEx.co

Re: About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA key

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Post by ikeboy »

Adlai wrote: post #21
ikeboy wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do we know how much he's actually worth?

His >50% MPOE[1] stake is at least 1.4 million coins (valuated by the last trade). If you're skeptical of numbers on webpages (c.f. "EmptyGox"), MPEx's trivially traceable addresses[2] currently contain around five thousand coins; tracking down the rest is left as an exercise for the skeptical sleth. [1] http://mpex.ws/?mpsic=S.MPOE [2] https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/MPEx.co

Oh, and who the hell is paying 50 btc to open an account at mpex?

Re: About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA key

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Post by grubles »

Adlai wrote: post #19
ikeboy wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does he have any claim to fame beyond very elaborate trolling? I've been trying to figure out what's up with him recently.

Wealth. Most of the publicly known early adopters don't spend as much (or any) time trolling about (and getting trolled) on IRC. http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Amircea_popescu

Possibly some people have been exposed to mircea through hearing about his insane quotes such as:

  The most you can do, after having been educated/raped, is picking the what and the how for other, later, virgins.
http://trilema.com/2014/patriarchy-is-a-thing-because-nobody...

Or they have read his Guide To Beating Women blog post:

http://trilema.com/2011/cum-se-bate-femeia/

Or perhaps they have read how his site for betting with bitcoin screwed someone over for about $7,000 in bitcoin:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=339544.0

Re: About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA key

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Post by Adlai »

ikeboy wrote: post #22
Adlai wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His >50% MPOE[1] stake is at least 1.4 million coins (valuated by the last trade). If you're skeptical of numbers on webpages (c.f. "EmptyGox"), MPEx's trivially traceable addresses[2] currently contain around five thousand coins; tracking down the rest is left as an exercise for the skeptical sleth. [1] http://mpex.ws/?mpsic=S.MPOE [2] https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/MPEx.co

Oh, and who the hell is paying 50 btc to open an account at mpex?

crickets

Re: About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA key

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Post by dang »

Adlai wrote: post #26
[deleted] wrote: post #24

[deleted]

Quite civil for an anonymous moderator! Every church has its child rapists; why should Bitcoin be an exception?

Please don't respond to trolls, and especially not by inflaming the thread further.

Instead, please flag trolls' comments by clicking on the timestamp to go to the comment's page, then clicking 'flag'.

Re: About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA key

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Post by dang »

obituary_latte wrote: post #14
userbinator wrote: post #12

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Is there any sort of statistical analyses which could give some idea of whether those bits were generated randomly, by a human, or perhaps came from some other key?

Why the fuck would this be downvoted? You people sometimes... Edit: further contributing to the discussion, more anonymous downvotes. Great.

Please resist complaining about downvotes, as the site guidelines ask. Most unfairly downvoted comments get corrective upvotes after a while—that's what happened in the GP's case. Comments like this one, though, just add noise.

Re: About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA key

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Post by sanswork »

Adlai wrote: post #21
ikeboy wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do we know how much he's actually worth?

His >50% MPOE[1] stake is at least 1.4 million coins (valuated by the last trade). If you're skeptical of numbers on webpages (c.f. "EmptyGox"), MPEx's trivially traceable addresses[2] currently contain around five thousand coins; tracking down the rest is left as an exercise for the skeptical sleth. [1] http://mpex.ws/?mpsic=S.MPOE [2] https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/MPEx.co

Maybe I'm reading it wrong but according to that there is ~10m shares outstanding at a price of 0.00028btc per share. Doesn't that make it worth around 2800 btc not 2.8m?

Re: About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA key

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Post by userbinator »

acqq wrote: post #13
userbinator wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any sort of statistical analyses which could give some idea of whether those bits were generated randomly, by a human, or perhaps came from some other key?

They are just 256 bits. And if they come from a cypher they certainly can't be distinguished from the pure random bits or from the bits from any other key. But if they come from some other key unmodified it would be possible to scan for the match, and it's a fast operation, as soon as we have the keys in which we'd like to search.

I was wondering about the possibility of distinguishing between a human opening a keyfile (I believe they are encoded in base64?) and manually overwriting pieces of it with random rubbish, or something else; humans make very poor RNGs, as anyone who has tried "randomly" mashing a keyboard will notice.
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