cleaned up whitespace

.gitconfig

@@ -22,4 +22,3 @@
 	recurse = true
 [diff]
 	submodule = log
-

docs/libraries.md

@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ primary fork name, should be temporary and local., not pushed to the
 project repository, But when you are modifying the submodules in a
 project as a single project, making related changes in the module and
 submodule, the shared names that are common to all developers belong in
-the primary project module,and when you have done with a submodule, 
+the primary project module,and when you have done with a submodule,
 
 ```bash
 git switch --detach
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ various commits you made while working on it temporary and local names
 with `switch -c yet-another-idea`
 
 All of which, of course, presupposes you have already set unit tests,
-upstream, origin, and your tracking branch appropriately. 
+upstream, origin, and your tracking branch appropriately.
 
 Even if your local modifications are nameless in your local submodule
 repository,  on your remote submodule repository they need to have a name
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ names and commits
 in your superproject that contains this submodules point to.
 
 You want `.gitmodules` in your local image of the repository to
-reflect the location and fork of your new remote repository, with 
+reflect the location and fork of your new remote repository, with
 your remote as its `origin` and their remote as its `upstream`.
 
 You need an enormous pile of source code, the work of many people over
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ such cases.
 
 ## Choco
 
-Choco, Chocolatey, is the Windows Package manager system.  Does not use `*.msi` as its packaging system.  A chocolatey package consists of an `*.nuget`, `chocolateyInstall.ps1`, `chocolateyUninstall.ps1`, and `chocolateyBeforeModify.ps1` (the latter script is run before upgrade or uninstall, and is to reverse stuff done by is accompanying 
+Choco, Chocolatey, is the Windows Package manager system.  Does not use `*.msi` as its packaging system.  A chocolatey package consists of an `*.nuget`, `chocolateyInstall.ps1`, `chocolateyUninstall.ps1`, and `chocolateyBeforeModify.ps1` (the latter script is run before upgrade or uninstall, and is to reverse stuff done by is accompanying
 `chocolateyInstall.ps1 `)
 
 Interaction with stuff installed by `*.msi` is apt to be bad.

docs/libraries/review_of_crypto_libraries.md

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ mangle together
    then ends gracefully, and the next stream and the next
    concurrent process starts when there is something to do.  While a stream lives, both ends maintain state, albeit in a
    request reply, the state lives only briefly.
-1. A message.  
+1. A message.
 
 Representing all this as a single kind of port, and packets going
 between ports of a single kind, inherently leads to the mess that we

docs/set_upstream.sh

@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/libsodium.git
 git remote set-url upstream  https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium.git
 cd ..
 cd mpir
-git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/mpir.git 
+git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/mpir.git
 git remote set-url upstream  https://github.com/BrianGladman/mpir.git
 cd ..
 cd wxWidgets
-git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/wxWidgets.git 
+git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/wxWidgets.git
 git remote set-url upstream  https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets.git
 cd ..
 cd wxWidgets/3rdparty/catch

docs/social_networking.md

@@ -269,10 +269,24 @@ For this to work, the underlying structure needs to be something based on
 the same principles as Git and git repositories, except that Git relies on
 SSL and the Certificate Authority system to locate a repository, which
 dangerous centralization would fail under the inevitable attack.  It needs to
- have instead for its repository name system a distributed name system, but
+ have instead for its repository name system a distributed hash table name
- a Kamelia distributed hash table will come under hostile attack.
+ system, but  a Kamelia distributed hash table will come under hostil
+  attack.
 
- So rather than a system relying on nearest neighbour by hash distance, nearest neighbour by social distance.
+ So rather than a system relying on nearest neighbour by hash distance,
+ nearest neighbour by social distance.
+
+ Social distance is costly and complex to calculate.  If there are more than
+ thirty or a hundred entities, need to use dimensional reduction.  But we do
+ not need to do it very often.
+
+ Social distance, if calculated in a shill and Sybil resistant way, lacks the
+ nice mathematical properties of the Kamelia distance metric, so does not
+ necessarily guarantee you will find what you are looking for.  Or if it does, going to be a lot more complicated to prove.  But it seems likely that most
+ of the time, it will perform well, because most of the time you will be
+ looking for someone close.  We will have to find out by experiment.
+
+ The reason that Kamelia network cannot work in the face of enemy action, is that the shills who want to prevent something from being found create a hundred entries with a hash close to their target by Kamelia distance, and then when your search brings you close to target, it brings you to a shill, who misdirects you.  Using social network distance resists this attack.
 
 The messages of the people you are following are likely to be in a
 relatively small number of repositories, even if the total number of

mpir_and_base58.cpp

@@ -23,13 +23,13 @@ namespace ro {
 				assert(index[pu] == 0);
 				index[pu] = *q++;
 			}
-			assert(*(p - 1) == '\0' && *q == '\0');	
+			assert(*(p - 1) == '\0' && *q == '\0');
 			/*	when an instance of this class is declared constexpr,
 				an assert does not trigger a run time error,
 				because expression evaluated at compile time.
 				Instead the compiler reports that the expression
 				did not evaluate to a constant,
-				
+
 				The error is confusing, because the error points to
 				the declaration where the initialization was invoked,
 				instead of pointing to the assert.

slash6.cpp

@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ static constexpr uint8_t index2base64[]{
 //	But on reflection, useless, since human typed stuff like this should use Bitcoin's base 58 encoding
 //	So going to switch to regular base64, despite the unreasonably immense amount of work I put into it.
 
-//	Unfortunately, Wireguard, with which I am going to need to interoperate, uses RFC4648, whose 
+//	Unfortunately, Wireguard, with which I am going to need to interoperate, uses RFC4648, whose
-//	algorithm is fundamentally different - no special treatment for I, O, o, and l, and uses = 
+//	algorithm is fundamentally different - no special treatment for I, O, o, and l, and uses =
 //	to handle the case where you have boundary problems between eight and six bit groups.
-//	They force everything to four character groups, using an = sign to indicate that the 
+//	They force everything to four character groups, using an = sign to indicate that the
 //	bytes being represented stop before a multiple of three. https://www.base64encode.org
 
 
@@ -57,11 +57,11 @@ static_assert(index2base64[63] == '_', "surprise numeral at 63");
 
 //	Compile time execution is C++ is a pain, because expressions are apt to unpredictably lose
 //	their constexpr character for reasons that are far from clear.
-// 
+//
 // You can declare anything reasonable to be constexpr, and the compiler will not issue an
-// error message until the code that attempts to use what you have declared constexpr is 
+// error message until the code that attempts to use what you have declared constexpr is
 // invoked from somewhere else  "expression does not evaluate to constant"
-// 
+//
 // an assert in an expression evaluated at compile time does not trigger a run time error,
 // Instead the compiler reports that the expression did not evaluate to a constant,
 //
@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ public:
 
 static constexpr charindex  ascii2six_ar(index2base64);
 
-// 
+//
-// 
+//
 // You really have to write compile time code in templates as a language, which is the totally
 //	obscure and hard to use language apt to generate remarkably voluminous error messages
 //	will little obvious connection to the actual problem, and surprising result that are ver