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What does “DBJ” stand for?

by k_sze 7y ago

gautamcgoel 7y ago
I think he means Daniel Bernstein, a prominent cryptographer and coder.
inferiorhuman 7y ago
Daniel Bernstein, author of qmail, djbdns, and daemontools among others.
- kick 7y ago
  That's DJB. DBJs is a Javascript database thing. There is possible ambiguity here.
  - inferiorhuman 7y ago
    Fair point. I associate DJB with security and coding best practices, Javascript not so much. I can only hope the comment I replied to meant DJB the person.
    - kick 7y ago
      I hope so too.
- k_sze 7y ago
  And where does that auth-info-via-file-handle come from? I did a bit of duckduckgoing and couldn’t spot anything about that.
  - simtel20 7y ago
    The qmail source code has this convention.
    - k_sze 7y ago
      Thanks!
      - zdw 7y ago
        Some call the concept "Bernstein Chaining": http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/writings/taoup/html/ch06s06.html http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/writings/taoup/html/ch06s06.html
pnako 7y ago
DJ Bernstein, famous for remixing sendmail and similar hits in the 90s