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Matthew Garrett

Starting a music streaming service that only implements SSL with 40-bit RC4 because it sounds warmer than modern TLS

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leo vriscrab² (homestuck) :dado_verified:

@mjg59 remembering the forum thread where people argued about whether malloc or operator new sounded better

Matthew Garrett

@leo literally brought that up in conversation 5 minutes ago, it's so good

Julien Goodwin

@mjg59 @leo ... and that's why I totally believe someone would do this.

Nazo

@leo @mjg59 This makes me think of people who use silver cables to headphones. Like, I'll accept that impedance/capacitance/etc could affect sound at significant enough scale, but headphones are not exactly "at scale."

Central Illumination Agency

@leo @mjg59 is that the audiophile’s version of the “how many days are there in a week” bodybuilder thread?

bignose

True cryptaudiophiles insist on analogue ciphers only, @mjg59

spv :verified:

@mjg59 "The problem with modern streaming services like Spotify, aside from their compression *spitting noise* is their use of complex cryptographic protocols. The further we get from the source material, the worse it sounds -- so naturally, more complicated encryption will produce more garbled sound." -- ad copy from Insecusic

Daniel Marks

@mjg59 I prefer to smooth my recordings by keeping only the least significant bits of each sample.

GhostOnTheHalfShell

@mjg59 Personally I still use vaccum tubes when listening for the same reason.

The Psychotic Network Ferret

@mjg59 You joke, but once one audiophile believes it, they all will. If I had less of a soul, I would sell rebadged Netgear junk from Best Try as $1500 hi fidelity streaming Ethernet switches.

Simon Zerafa :donor: :verified:

@mjg59

Oxygen free Cryptographic protocols would give even better sound 🙂👍

young man yells at the cloud

@mjg59 i tried out my buddy's airpods the other day

"nah, too cold"

lj·rk

@bamboombibbitybop @mjg59 They sound much better when using CVE-2024-27867 to listen to music unencrypted!

James Henstridge

@mjg59 make sure to use constant time primitives in your cryptography implementation, because it reduces audio jitter.

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