Comment by Slothrop99

Comment by Slothrop99 2 days ago

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Great to see some 3letter guy into this. This might be one of those rando things which gets posted on HN (and which doesn't involve me in the slightest), but a decade later is taking over the world. Rust and Go were like that.

Previously there was that Rust in APT discussion. A lot of this middle-aged linux infrastructure stuff is considered feature-complete and "done". Not many young people are coming in, so you either attract them with "heyy rewrite in rust" or maybe the best thing is to bottle it up and run in a VM.

mesrik 2 days ago

>Great to see some 3letter guy into this

AFAIK, djb isn't for many "some 3letter guy" for over about thirty years but perhaps it's just age related issue with those less been around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein

  • Slothrop99 2 days ago

    Just to be clear, I mean to venerate Bernstein for earning his 3letters, not to trivialize him.

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    • jabwd 2 days ago

      Despite the cool shit the guy has done, keep in mind that "venerate" is not the word to use here. djb is very much not a shorthand used in any positive messaging pretty much ever by any cryptographer. He did it to himself, sadly.

      • pas 2 days ago

        Sorry, can you explain what he did to himself?

    • ggm-at-algebras 2 days ago

      Not to trivialise but being a 3 letter guy means being old. So, it's at best a celebration of achieving longevity and at worst a celebration of creaky joints and a short temper.

      • vkazanov 2 days ago

        Most of us will have a problematic joint or two by a certain age. Almost none of us will be recognised by any name by that time.

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  • pixelpoet 2 days ago

    It's wild how much he looks like ryg, another 3 letter genius