Nobody debated his ability to write code. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 07:30:47PM -0500, Brad Tilley wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:32 -0800, "Ben Calvert" <b...@flyingwalrus.net> wrote: > > > Tracing this discussion back to it's origins earlier this month, I see > > the > > problem as arising from a statement made by a Mathematician (DJB) about > > the > > infallibility of his software when used with certain filesystems. > > > > It is understandable for someone from a theoretical field (math) to > > assume > > that there exists such a thing as certainty in real life... but > > unacceptable > > in a software engineer. > > Not sure it is correct to say that DJB is only theoretical. He wrote the SHA1 > code that won the Engineyard SHA1 contest. His code is 12 times faster than > OpenSSL's SHA1. DJB has also written a lot of Unix utilities, some of which > are controversial, nevertheless, he can write code. > > http://www.win.tue.nl/cccc/sha-1-challenge.html > > Brad
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