3 ms·
DJB! If you could get him out of his cave at UIC.
by yid 13y ago
DJB! If you could get him out of his cave at UIC.
- tptacek 13y agoThe irony of Daniel Bernstein chairing the IETF crypto review board is so potent that I got a small nosebleed just thinking about it. But, nomination emphatically seconded. For what it's worth, Bernstein spends most of his time in Europe these days.
- bdhe 13y agoNow this might be just gossip-mongering, but care to enlighten us on why djb on the IETF crypto review board would be potent irony?
- tptacek 13y agoYou'd need to have followed Bernstein's other adventures with IETF standards groups, particularly the DNS standards debacle.
- maaku 13y agoI think that's rather the point. Bernstein has had the constitution to call out the nonsense of the NSA-influenced IETF working groups before it was fashionable to do so. I don't think it'd be ironic to consider him as a replacement for an NSA employee on the way out due to that concern.
- Beltiras 13y agoMore just deserts than irony?
- salient 13y agoSecond DJB! Would be the perfect choice, especially now that more and more cryptographers are looking to his curves and protocols, so he already knows what the vision for the future of IETF should be. I'm actually quite excited about the possibility of him being named chair at IETF. As IETF chair he may be even bring us the elusive "secure by default Internet" with his CurveCP protocol or a future evolution of it. The secure by default Internet has actually been declared one of the main goals of IETF at their recent meeting: http://www.ietf.org/live/ http://www.ietf.org/live/ http://curvecp.org/ http://curvecp.org/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8EGA834Nok http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8EGA834Nok
- ef47d35620c1 13y agoNow there is a true mathematician and technologist all rolled into one!
- luckydude 13y ago+1