Peter Montgomery Has Died

Posted by FiloSottile on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @07:04PM
from the iacr.org dept.

https://iacr.org/people/PeterMontgomery.html

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Re:Peter Montgomery Has Died by eismcc on Thursday February 20, 2020 @12:26AM (#22372911)

I worked on the crypto team at Microsoft, which Peter Montgomery worked with to integrate various algorithms. He was quite nice and also quite unforgettable. RIP

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Re:Peter Montgomery Has Died by remmargorp64 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @12:31PM (#22376773)

It seems so tragic to me that there are so many people that bust their ass their whole life to save up for retirement at 65, only to die 5 years later.

It makes me almost not even want to bother saving up for retirement...

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Re:Peter Montgomery Has Died by jinushaun on Monday March 02, 2020 @10:59AM (#22465453)

Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. Your money would pass on to your estate/partner/children.

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Re:Peter Montgomery Has Died by aerovistae on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @09:05PM (#22372150)

Jesus how many people are gonna die today?

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Re:Peter Montgomery Has Died by kcdev on Thursday February 20, 2020 @12:08AM (#22372835)

About 150,000 [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate

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Re:Peter Montgomery Has Died by Invictus0 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @10:36PM (#22372485)

There was some analysis of celebrity deaths in 2016 that was interesting [0][1]. Analyses disagree on whether 2016 was particularly deadly for celebrities, but they generally agree that there are more people we consider celebrities dying each year.

[0] https://medium.com/@jasoncrease/was-2016-especially-dangerou...

[1] https://macro.media.mit.edu/2017/

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Re:Peter Montgomery Has Died by gibolt on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @10:47PM (#22372529)

There are also more people total, and more people considered celebrities

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Re:Peter Montgomery Has Died by yingw787 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @09:19PM (#22372195)

Feels like the end of an era.

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Re:Peter Montgomery Has Died by nvjtd on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @10:59PM (#22372569)

First Pop Smoke now Peter ;(

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