On 7/7/20 11:59 AM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jul 2020, Phil Smith III wrote: > >> Time Travel Resistant Cryptography >> >> https://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?m=1336 >> <https://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?m=1336&i=666070&view=articleBrowser&article_id=3713491> >> &i=666070&view=articleBrowser&article_id=3713491 > rather ignorant of the motivations for __ contributing __ to > an Open Source project [speaking as one of the three founders > of CentOS]. The author does not not mention, nor does he > seem to have read Eric Raymond's _The Cathedral and the > Bazaar_, and restates the old chestnut FUD about 'dangerous' > Open Source > > not worth reading
Interesting perspective. Thanks! I don't know the author well, but he is our primary full-time cryptographer. (Would not consider him a coder, which might explain his lack of knowledge about FLOSS.) I thought the piece was supposed to be (partly) tongue-in-cheek. I'll make a point to share Cat Baz, always a good read. > -- Russ herrold > (time traveller) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- -- R; <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
