wulfheart wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 25, 2023 1:52 am

Is this bot also available in other languages?

Ask the bot?

I have deleted them. There's a button somewhere in the new UI.

The virus broke the illusion of control, that people have tried to regain since. They hoped in experimental vaccines that were consequentially rushed to market. Now we know that they don't prevent infection, but people take them as it helps them regain the illusion of control. Meanwhile the virus se...

privacy trumps encryption when the former is available. Hmm, did you get this the wrong way round? Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by privacy? If you mean "privacy" as guaranteed by a company / law / etc I'd say encryption trumps privacy. I just compare the private channels in full press to ...

I definitely agree using this method is equivalent to private press. It's a very neat trick, but it's using cryptography to work around the game rules, and if the rule of the game is "public press" using these techniques violates that and effectively makes it private press, using some very clever c...

In normal full press you don't see when other players write messages to private press. Nor can you expose your private press to a 3rd player. You can copy/paste the discussion, but you could have copied it from anywhere. Ok, fair enough, it's a game that is almost identical to a normal full press g...

So does the stuff I say to bots have any impact on their actions? Parsing what you say would be harder to implement than talking, so probably not. And are there "tier lists" of countries against bots? (my very possibly inaccurate gut feeling says top three are 1 France, 2 Germany, and 3 Turkey.) AF...

Bots just don't talk. And the difficulty of bot games depends largely on the nation you get. The games are automatically ruled drawn when the player is gone, so bot Italy usually attacks Austria.

b) every player is using this technique, in which case you are just playing a normal full press game with lots of extra steps In normal full press you don't see when other players write messages to private press. Nor can you expose your private press to a 3rd player. You can copy/paste the discussi...

Going to say here, from a kinda-mod perspective, this is a cool thought experiment but if you do it in a public press game (assuming I'm understanding this correctly), you are essentially communicating privately. The messages are only encrypted, not hidden. Either player could easily prove their co...

For encryption I recommend the technique I laid out on the strategy board. It's a way to agree to a common secret in the public press. It remains secret because it is a mixture of 3 ingredients: 2 secret ones, one from each party, and 1 such that either secret can be mixed to it before the other. I ...

Attaching the makefile still fails, but you can cat > makefile and paste the contents below: my_confounded: my_secret openssl pkey -in $< -pubout -out $@ cat $@ # Below this line my_secret: openssl genpkey -algorithm X25519 -out $@ common_with_%: % my_secret openssl pkeyutl -derive -inkey my_secret ...

Hey it works! Nifty.. > As with a lot of this stuff, very neat, but a bit impractical < I think more practical and definitely more secure than what was used in that game that inspired this guide. :) It'd be good if there was decent software that allowed this kind of thing more easily. We use this s...

This is the first time that I see an advertising bot get +1 from a mod.

I'll be interested to get some feedback from players after this first game is through.. to me the bot seems annoyingly chatty and verbose, I think I might've tweaked something too far in the wrong direction, it's just writing walls of text. What it's writing seems to make sense, but for every messa...

Eeenteresting.. So here's my confounded contribution: -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- MCowBQYDK2VuAyEAlzaB5x9nLBv47jZ66s0EClFsf2oRqjk+AeIOV5JbtjI= -----END PUBLIC KEY----- I now have a common secret with you.. so I guess I can use those 256 raw bits to encrypt something only you can read? If I generate ...

JECE wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 07, 2023 9:19 pm

The algebra makes sense. But it isn't algebra, I guess?

The actual implementation uses algebra of a finite field, but I haven't delved into it so deeply that I could tell how accurate analogy integer multiplication actually is (so I called it just mixing), but Wikipedia seems to use it.

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 07, 2023 5:10 pm

learnedSloth wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 07, 2023 2:30 pm

Yigg wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 07, 2023 4:38 am

Uh oh! Someone(s) didn't enter orders this turn!

I think it was Austria. The info page shows that he has used 1 of his excuses.

Huh?

Where are you able to see that?

Understanding isn't required for use. :-) OK, let's forget metaphors. The math is simple. I made the following table where - CF is the confounding factor - S1 is the secret of Player 1 - S2 is the secret of Player 2 - * means mixing - arrows illustrate direction of dataflow Player 1 knows | Public P...

Yigg wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 07, 2023 4:38 am

Uh oh! Someone(s) didn't enter orders this turn!

I think it was Austria. The info page shows that he has used 1 of his excuses.