On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:32 -0800, "Ben Calvert" <[email protected]> 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
