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From his bio, I would reduce his mile long credentials to the following: - wrote a best seller "applied cryptography" - wrote "secrets and lies" (not a best s
by larrys 15y ago
From his bio, I would reduce his mile long credentials to the following:
- wrote a best seller "applied cryptography"
- wrote "secrets and lies" (not a best seller)
- wrote "beyond fear"
- wrote "schneier on security"
- publishes a monthly newsletter
- chief security officer of bt.com
The rest of the bio:
http://www.schneier.com/about.html http://www.schneier.com/about.html
...essentially amounts to what publications and others think of him as a result of what he has done (above) I'm guessing. What I would call "assumption of legitimacy".
"Described by The Economist"
"Described by Wired"
"Called by Fortune"
"Regularly quoted in the Media"
"Testified on security before Congress"
"Written op eds for major publications"
"crypto gram has 150,000 readers ..."
Now I don't know enough about security and haven't read any of his writings to independently know whether Schneier is an expert or not. And I'm also guessing that many of the media and others that give him credibility also don't know.
After I was quoted in major media everyone else came out of the woodwork and wanted info from me on what I know about. That of course doesn't mean I am not qualified. But it's really not that hard to get the ball rolling on being an expert once the ball is rolling.
- jpdoctor 15y ago> From his bio, I would reduce his mile long credentials to the following: Why did you ignore his time at Bell Labs? Or in the DoD?
- larrys 15y agoNot seeing that here? http://www.schneier.com/about.html http://www.schneier.com/about.html Although now I see it on this page: http://www.schneier.com/news-096.html http://www.schneier.com/news-096.html "My first job after college was with the Department of Defense. Years later, I was laid off from AT&T Bell Labs" The DOD job was out of college. "laid off" from Bell Labs doesn't offer a time line. But most importantly it doesn't appear on his own "about" page so for whatever reason while he is highlighting other things he is not drawing attention to that.
- lawnchair_larry 15y agoWhile unsuitable for a bio, it is also worth noting that his algorithm is one of the five finalists for the ongoing NIST SHA3 competition. This is further than Dan Bernstein's algorithm went. He is also the author of blowfish, which is the basis of bcrypt, which you may have heard people preaching about on HN.
- tptacek 15y agoNote that BLAKE, another SHA-3 finalist, is based on DJB's ChaCha permutation.
- pbsd 15y agoIt's unfair to compare Skein (designed by a 8 people team, most of which more active in the field than Bruce), to CubeHash, solely designed by Dan.
- lawnchair_larry 15y agoI wasn't actually trying to suggest that Schneier is better than Dan, just trying to convey that he isn't just some blogger/author that blows hot air. He has technical accomplishments at least roughly on par with those in his field.