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Bruce Schneier isn't some random academic. He's extremely highly respected, and is the Chief Security Technology Officer of BT Communications. He has tons of
by frisco 16y ago
Bruce Schneier isn't some random academic. He's extremely highly respected, and is the Chief Security Technology Officer of BT Communications. He has tons of experience with securing systems in the real world, and to say he "obviously [doesn't] know that much about OpenBSD security culture and history" is crazy.
- borism 16y agoI highly respect Bruce Schneier, but he obviously has no clue on current subject like most anybody else.
- davidj 16y agosorry 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?
- tptacek 16y agoI 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?
- bl4k 16y agoAlright, I will bite. What are your reasons for not liking Bruce? (I can't wait for this)
- tptacek 16y agoI don't so much "not like him". But, compare cite records: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Serge+Vaudenay&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=400001&as_sdtp=on http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Serge+Vaudenay&hl=en... http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=hans+dobberton&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=400001&as_sdtp=on http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=hans+dobberton&hl=en... http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=eli+biham&btnG=Search&as_sdt=400000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0 http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=eli+biham&... http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=bruce+schneier&btnG=Search&as_sdt=400000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0 http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=bruce+schneier...
- bl4k 16y agooh is that all. An entire generation were taught cryptography on the back of AC, so he definitely the widest read crypto dev.
- tptacek 16y agoI'll go out on a limb and say this right now: Bruce Schneier almost certainly doesn't know much about OpenBSD security culture and history. He is, as I am fond of saying lately, "many good things", but.