Faust, this one's for you

[Cainad (dec.)]

If I remember your age correctly, I AM you in 5 years, which is probably why I took great joy in shitting on you yesterday. I joined this shitty website when I was 17, and literally every post I made for like 3 years (excepting maybe a small handful of tolerable essays) was trash.

Trust me, you're hilarious.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

If I remember your age correctly, I AM you in 5 years, which is probably why I took great joy in shitting on you yesterday. I joined this shitty website when I was 17, and literally every post I made for like 3 years (excepting maybe a small handful of tolerable essays) was trash.

Trust me, you're hilarious.

This warms my heart, because if you can identify with this guy even a little, there's hope.

[Cainad (dec.)]

When I was around that age, a little younger actually, I read a book series with a major character who is a master manipulator, to a nearly superhuman degree (this is the Prince of Nothing series I talk about with Cain sometimes). The character is the prodigy of a monastic cult of hyper-rationalists who live isolated from a word that is full of fanatical, medieval Europe style religion. He can read faces and body language, predict the movement of people's thoughts, and figure out what makes them tick within the span of a single conversation. He is, of course, an absurdly effective character who gets an improbable amount of shit done.

Upon a second re-read a few years later, I put it together that this character is NOT the Good Guy. There's always hope for progress.

[POFP]

If I remember your age correctly, I AM you in 5 years, which is probably why I took great joy in shitting on you yesterday. I joined this shitty website when I was 17, and literally every post I made for like 3 years (excepting maybe a small handful of tolerable essays) was trash.

Trust me, you're hilarious.

Well, shit. I can die now. My dream was to give up manipulation to be a comedian, but I never thought I'd be funny. But, since I'm hilarious 

[Rev Thwack]

Seriously, the thought that what you were trying to describe is just you not remembering exactly how things with AES and hashing works.... Fucking hilarious.

[POFP]

Yeah, I'm still working on the "Very preachy, even when uninformed" aspect of my problems. At least you guys point it out to make me more aware.

[Pæs]

While we're at it, you also misunderstand prefacing.

It just so happens the government uses AES a lot, so I would use that with [as random as you can make them] salts and seeds, as well as making sure the key is as random as you can make it, while also making it long enough for a hash cracker to be useless. As far as I know, if you can get ahold of a hash of a small enough key, you can just bruteforce the hash and get the key easily. But, because the size of any hash is cut off, only part of the key could even be recovered if you got ahold of a hash for a very long key. Or, it would be a useless chain of characters, depending on whether length had anything to do with the hash encryption algorithm. I forget exactly how that works.

[POFP]

While we're at it, you also misunderstand prefacing.

It just so happens the government uses AES a lot, so I would use that with [as random as you can make them] salts and seeds, as well as making sure the key is as random as you can make it, while also making it long enough for a hash cracker to be useless. As far as I know, if you can get ahold of a hash of a small enough key, you can just bruteforce the hash and get the key easily. But, because the size of any hash is cut off, only part of the key could even be recovered if you got ahold of a hash for a very long key. Or, it would be a useless chain of characters, depending on whether length had anything to do with the hash encryption algorithm. I forget exactly how that works.

FUCK

Ok, so, what I did was, I clarified my level of understanding (or lack there of) at the end.

This was not my greatest piece, I'll admit. In-fact, it was, as Cainad said, "trash."

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Seriously, the thought that what you were trying to describe is just you not remembering exactly how things with AES and hashing works.... Fucking hilarious.