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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