Maybe not a good enough reason, but the author of tarsnap is very active on HN (cperciva). He's also very smart... ("Dr. Colin Percival studied mathematics at S

Maybe not a good enough reason, but the author of tarsnap is very active on HN (cperciva). He's also very smart... ("Dr. Colin Percival studied mathematics at Simon Fraser University, entering at age 13, before going on to a doctorate in Computing at Oxford University, where his thesis covered problems in string matching, data compression, and file synchronization.")