Re: [cryptography] Daniel the King. Jon the President. Linus the God?

2013-10-06 Thread Peter Gutmann
quotes: >We reject: kings, presidents and voting. >We believe in: rough consensus and running code. >-- David Clark Well that was certainly an elegant concept for a more civilized age, but it's been: We used to reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believed in: ro

Re: [cryptography] Daniel the King. Jon the President. Linus the God?

2013-10-05 Thread James A. Donald
On 2013-10-06 02:52, d...@geer.org wrote: We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code. Which gave us IEEE 802.11 Which, like "Occupy Wall Street", worked by consensus. ___ cryptography mailing list crypt

Re: [cryptography] Daniel the King. Jon the President. Linus the God?

2013-10-05 Thread dan
As we're down a rat hole now, perhaps this can be the last word: We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code. -- David Clark ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net ht

Re: [cryptography] Daniel the King. Jon the President. Linus the God?

2013-10-05 Thread grarpamp
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:21 AM, ianG wrote: > Long Live Competition! There should be no King to serve, no Committee to subvert, only an open Process. ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cr

[cryptography] Daniel the King. Jon the President. Linus the God?

2013-10-05 Thread ianG
On 4/10/13 01:39 AM, James A. Donald wrote: On 2013-10-04 03:45, Adam Back wrote: Is it just me or could we better replace NIST by DJB ? ;) He can do that EC crypto, and do constant time coding (nacl), and non-hackable mail servers (qmail), and worst-time databases (cdb). Most people in the wo