• davel [he/him]
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    124 days ago

    I had no idea djb had gone on to crypto. I only know him from his earlier qmail & djbdns work. I made a bunch of money off of qmail decades ago. Thanks, djb.

    • Arthur BesseOPM
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      224 days ago

      Yeah, I also used to run qmail and first knew of djb as the apparently only person capable of implementing network protocols in C without any exploitable bugs :)

      But, he was actually doing historically important cryptography work even back then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States (and since has gone on to co-invent several cryptographic primitives which are now ubiquitous internet standards).