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Re:Schneier's take on the alleged backdoor in OpenBSD by davidj on Friday December 17, 2010 @06:56PM (#2018376)
sorry I didn't mean to appear to disrespect Bruce Schneier, I've met him, gone to his book signings, own all his books, I even buy his books for gifts to my friends. I'm a huge fan of his work. We need people like him who have done highly advance studies in the security field; he is the best and an amazingly lucid writer. I never said he was a random academic or that his overall research should be disregarded. I really don't think you understand my original comment. Theory is not practice; they are two separate things. I guess I should have just said that. do you see my point now?
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Re:Schneier's take on the alleged backdoor in OpenBSD by tptacek on Friday December 17, 2010 @07:12PM (#2018412)
I am not so much a Schneier fan, so if you feel like you need cover for leveling any kind of criticism against anything he says, don't worry too much. Are you sure you believe Schneier would know anything about the code quality of a specific IPSEC implementation --- or really, about the code quality of any IPSEC implementation?
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Re:Schneier's take on the alleged backdoor in OpenBSD by bl4k on Friday December 17, 2010 @08:36PM (#2018616)
Alright, I will bite. What are your reasons for not liking Bruce?

(I can't wait for this)

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Re:Schneier's take on the alleged backdoor in OpenBSD by bl4k on Friday December 17, 2010 @09:59PM (#2018750)
oh is that all. An entire generation were taught cryptography on the back of AC, so he definitely the widest read crypto dev.
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Re:Schneier's take on the alleged backdoor in OpenBSD by tptacek on Friday December 17, 2010 @10:27PM (#2018804)
He is definitely the widest-read crypto dev. There can be no question of that.
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Re:Schneier's take on the alleged backdoor in OpenBSD by marchdown on Saturday December 18, 2010 @01:20AM (#2019034)
Out of curiosity, who else is out there writing essay-length on crypto and security in general?
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Re:Schneier's take on the alleged backdoor in OpenBSD by bl4k on Saturday December 18, 2010 @01:28AM (#2019045)
One of the better recent sites has been RSnake's:

http://ha.ckers.org/

But he just retired from blogging about netsec and is done with the industry, I think (a lot of ppl get sick of it, I left the sec industry 10+ years ago and never looked back)

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Re:Schneier's take on the alleged backdoor in OpenBSD by tptacek on Saturday December 18, 2010 @01:33AM (#2019050)
rsnake doesn't do any crypto work. Like, at all. A fine guy to go to for XSS or SQLI.
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