Nah, all the other checks were from Creation stuff. The Exaltation itself, Autobot, whatever caused the shutdown (SOMEONE is paranoid.). All the way up to the so-mysterious Level 6 that passed.
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- Thread starter Baughn
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Public key cryptography & certificates
Baughn
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Right. Certificate primer time!
Public-key encryption allows you to do two related operations. One of them involves encryption; the other, signing. I'll be focusing on the signing...
Step 1: Generate a public/private key-pair.
Step 2: Publish the public key.
Step 3: Sign some message with the private key. Anyone who knows the public key can then verify that you knew the corresponding private key.
But there's a problem here: How do you know that the private key belongs to the person you think it does?
The solution is certificates. Some more-trusted party can create a "certificate" - a block of text saying, basically, "<This public key> belongs to <this person>". It is assumed that they've performed due diligence in making sure that's true. If they then sign it, then you can (theoretically!) be sure that they did, in fact... sign it. There's no way to fake a signature, and in theory that's all that's needed.
That depends on you trusting said more-trusted party, however. If you don't, then you're right back at the starting line. The solution for that is for some even-more-trusted party to sign the more-trusted party's certificate...
You can see how this might lead to a chain of certificates, but in the end there has to be some key that's trusted "just because".
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Even if we accepted that it some how got Amu's signatures, then that leaves the question why she 'has' signatures. Or should we perhaps think that humans just walk around with certificate chains in their head all the time? (And seemingly a valid one at that)
Also the chain seemed unbroken... probably, admittedly the level 3 hard reset (which is odd) obscured things a bit, and Autochton was level 1 and 2; it passed many levels higher then that.
And with the authors explanation we are now also left to wonder who started this chain, as it certainly wasn't Autochton then. How did it even get those keys above it...
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Baughn
Healing-type writer
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- Dublin
It also contains fish!
Baughn
Healing-type writer
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It's delicious and moist!
Oh, very well. Here, have a different cake!
-.-; Please stop poking holes in what's left of Alectai's sanity *looks at pic* ... Or the rest of us for that matter. Out side of updates anyway.It's delicious and moist!
Oh, very well. Here, have a different cake!
You could always not react to it and do one of the many, many things we've been putting aside in favor of ENTITY.
And it's not too late to burn it to death while it's distracted. It'd be a serious dick move to hand it a set of guidelines on how to behave and then blast it while it's running tests on them, but eh. The option is there.
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Seriously though, I have no idea what to pick. Left to my own devices though, I'd be inclined to stick to [X] "Work on Shadow Etched in Air Shintai" though, we did say we'd do so.
Wait, we did? Yeah, we should probably do that, then, breaking a promise to do that would alienate Amu no matter how we vote.
Doing that means we aren't doing something more useful.
One can't avoid taking some risks now and then though. Is there any real reason to think Exo is a threat? It's ultimately a part of Amu, right? So the question is really, what is a better use of the time?
Figuring out a past problem that might recur? Resolve standing issues, ie the chara, which will no doubt come back to us soon enough and with out a better solution...? Preparing for future issues one might think are coming?
On that line I guess the chara issue would be something that might come back to cause problems soon?
Edit, to put it another way, we're swimming in a sea of problems of larger and smaller. Trying to eliminate every threat fully is probably impossible in the time frame given, thus one is going to have to take a risk somewhere. If one doesn't, then one will be pushed in to unfortunate decisions later on. Pick your poison I guess.
Figuring out a past problem that might recur? Resolve standing issues, ie the chara, which will no doubt come back to us soon enough and with out a better solution...? Preparing for future issues one might think are coming?
On that line I guess the chara issue would be something that might come back to cause problems soon?
Edit, to put it another way, we're swimming in a sea of problems of larger and smaller. Trying to eliminate every threat fully is probably impossible in the time frame given, thus one is going to have to take a risk somewhere. If one doesn't, then one will be pushed in to unfortunate decisions later on. Pick your poison I guess.
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Something that will be helpful against more than one more-than-likely friendly entity.
Where does piecing together what happened to Creation fall under that, then?
Wasn't I clear when I voted for it? I think we're going to regret ignoring it eventually. We're always going to be busy, and if it does have important intelligence it's better that we know sooner.
By the same token, an "intelligent" force capable of and willing to, interfere with our communication with Amu is a very real, immediate concern.
Simply because of its unpredictability
We have reason to believe that it's friendly, though. That's what the shaper/anchor semantics mean. They're defining its goals or whatever, I can't into science speak. Seriously, google that stuff.
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Did you read the update? It's not accepting E60's authority, but it is submitting to Rindler's authority, whatever that is.
And this right here is it accepting our "patch".
We said we'd work it out with Amu when the situation allows(i.e. nothing is on fire.)