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Limiting Daniel J. Bernstein to the creator of djbdns is quite an understatement. He is a very important cryptographer, to say the least[1]. Specially for a ma
by DanielRibeiro 14y ago
Limiting Daniel J. Bernstein to the creator of djbdns is quite an understatement. He is a very important cryptographer, to say the least[1].
Specially for a man that has been ulogized[2,3] as the greatest programmer in the history of the world.
HN has in the past done a good job telling his great story[4]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein
[2] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/djb http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/djb
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=890034 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=890034
[4] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Bernstein+&sortby=points+desc http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Bernstein+&...
- casca 14y agoSo true, djb is a legend in the field. To give an example, he wrote qmail as a replacement for sendmail and the last stable release was in 1998. There have been no identified security vulnerabilities in that time. If you want to learn how to program securely, read ""Some thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0" - http://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf http://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf