[117029] in Cypherpunks
PGP source and binaries comparisons, and vain and degrading idiots
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Avon)
Wed Aug 25 14:23:39 1999
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From: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
To: "Cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:04:12 -0400
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Reply-To: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:44:02 -0500, Sean Roach wrote:
>
>At 07:05 PM 8/24/99 -0400, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
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>>As a side question:
>>Did anybody check if the actual PGP binaries distribution is identical to what
>>you obtain upon compilation of the published source?
>Would it be? What if I used a different compiler? What if I didn't have
>optimization turned on? What if I didn't have it turned off? What if it
>recognized that I had a pentium and not just a 386?
I wonder why the vain idiot who replied doesn't compile the code on the good
processor, with optimization in the proper state, etc, etc? He seems to have
forgotten that there are way many more ways to fail than to succeed, to be dead
than alive...
All is needed is that _some_ trustworthy people do it and obtain the proper
results. The vast majority of PGP users don't only not own any compiler, they
don't even know what it is! So, they rely on the integrity of others. In that
case, the integrity of Cypherpunks and the grass-root crypto community. Just as
most Cypherpunks rely on the integrity of some others for knowledge. Otherwise,
everybody would have to learn medicine and rocket science and everything for
himself!
I really do LOVE out-of-context and genuinely going-out-of-their-way-to-be-
supremely-nitpicking-asshole replies like that!
Why is it that people like him enjoy it so much to assume other people are that
clueless? Why is it that they don't now any better way to increase their self-
esteem than to feel the urge to shit on others and paint them as idiots?
I usually re-direct thoses people to the nearest psychotherapist with a fully
loaded medicine cabinet.
My original question still stands.
Ciao
jfa
"The only power any government has is to crack down on crime and
criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, then one
makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes
impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation
of law-abiding citizens. What's there in that for anyone. But just
pass the kinds of law that can neither be observed nor enforced nor
objectively interpreted and you create a nation of lawbreakers
- and then you can cash in on their guilt."
-from _Atlas_Shrugged_ by Ayn Rand
PGP keys:
http://www.cam.ac.uk.pgp.net/pgpnet/wwwkeys.html
PGP 2.6.x RSA
0xC58ADD0D: 5296 45E8 205A 8A5E F87C C86F AEFE F891
0x5B51964D: 152A CCBC D4A4 81B0 2540 1119 3237 822C
PGP 5.x DH ID: 0x6CBA71F7
4858 88E9 FD68 415A 2945 ACCB 366D 3848 6CBA 71F7
