smalltorch

Source https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/torch

hosting @

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encryption key/room : hackernews

I am a casual observer of HN and am kinda just here as a hobbyist. Most the stuff I read here I can't even comprehend to be honest, you guys speak a lot of gibberish to me.

Ive made something I was surprised is even possible to make which is both fun and daunting in the context of what will be possible in the future.

I asked AI to scrape HN comments into the a large corpus of templates that would be ideal to encode messages in. To my surprise it had nothing preventing it from doing this. It did it instantly. Then I asked it to plug the corpus of templates into this other thing I made which encodes plaintext into small compressed data.

Now I can encode secret messages into HN comments.

Here are a few examples:

> 71 coherent cover texts hiding a secret message https://postimg.cc/mtMmxPkD

and

> 30 cover texts https://postimg.cc/crXVHDwQ

All this really got me thinking, with a sufficient amount of data, you could eventually make something that looks completely believable and relevant to a conversation that is taking place.

How will we know in the future that what we are replying to is not some bot with alter motive? And, how much of this place is already that?

On the topic, what have you guys made that made you think... "Wow, I can't believe I can make this seems potentially dangerous" ?

Working on a project where the goal is to generate a secure key from my device. Ive used dev/urandom in the past but it's always felt like a black box and I have no way to prove it's completely random.

Then it dawned on me while I was playing guitar...why don't I make a program that records audio and hashes the input. Is this not a TRNG? The input would never repeat since there will always be slight difference.

What am I missing?

I have always loved to build for as long as I can remember. I am a carpenter by trade. Let me tell you... the satisfaction you get from being able to build something substantial and usefull in an afternoon out of 2x4's has become synonomous with coding agents.

I have been fooling around with this for the past three months and I am almost at the point where I am ready to stamp my name on something and launch my first product.

The application I am building would have cost 100k plus to build 5 years ago and Im doing it on a 12 year old MacBook and 80 dollar subscription.