Hacker News: yyzhero

New comment by yyzhero in "Shamir's Secret Sharing"

yyzhero — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 06:39:25 +0000

Polynomials are special

New comment by yyzhero in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

yyzhero — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:55:03 +0000

Don't blame yourself. Go read argument culture. Everything is positioned as a debate rather then a discussion ; take an opposing side and it's about winning not understanding. As an example If you've caught yourself ever leveraging syntax in a discussion to derail someone's ideas

New comment by yyzhero in "Inside Telegram’s ambitious $1.2B ICO to create the next Ethereum"

yyzhero — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 04:02:01 +0000

Hypercube routing seems Similar to hypercast: http://www.comm.utoronto.ca/hypercast/overview.html

New comment by yyzhero in "Sops – An editor of encrypted files using AWS KMS and PGP"

yyzhero — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 03:20:26 +0000

Is this using homomorphic encryption ?

New comment by yyzhero in "A proof-of-concept system for counter-surveillance against spy drones"

yyzhero — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 03:56:05 +0000

wireless transmission costs magnitude more then CPU cycles hence delta frames.

New comment by yyzhero in "Apple’s Secure Enclave Processor (SEP) Firmware Decrypted"

yyzhero — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 04:05:06 +0000

The secure enclave uses secp256r1 while blockchain typically use secp256k1. Since private keys can't be imported, blockchain devs still require software interface until one or the others adopts the scheme.

New comment by yyzhero in "Orchid: a new surveillance-free layer on top of the existing Internet"

yyzhero — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 03:06:57 +0000

There is no code. This is a cash grab. The author politely states they needed review of white paper concepts, so no they are not sure it will even be worth writing. The idealology of decentralization also reforms the patent system, so this project will fall like other over hyped icos, will get normalized on listing. Probably a huge discount for "seed".

New comment by yyzhero in "Viking ‘Allah’ textile actually doesn't have Allah on it"

yyzhero — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 15:15:30 +0000

I see swastikas, Vikings were definitely Jain