Re: Notice: My 2nd crypto book finished :-)

Greg Rose a écrit :
In article <45463a14$0$11315$426a34cc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, mm <mm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Luc The Perverse a écrit :
- you are insulting someone indirectly.
Second, which insult? I say that TSD has no skill at doing maths. This
is not an insult, this is a fact. Now, though not being good at maths is

I'm not so sure of this "fact".

That's your right.

not an infirmity [*], if I have to use a maths library, I prefer to use
a library written by someone who is a little more than almost totally
clueless rather than the contrary.

Strange. If I want a library that implements well
known constructs, I'd really want it written by
someone who cares about careful, correct, and
efficient programs, rather than by an abstract
mathematician who doesn't care that input might be
malformed, outside the proper range, or how long
it takes to come up with the answer.

But who did talk about "abstract mathematician?" Did I say such a thing?

I only say that a computer scientist who wants to work in the crypto
domain should have a minimal knowledge in maths. And that's totally
obvious. Look at any CS cursus (with a specialization in crypto) of any
university.

Now, I'm not much of a mathematician myself, but
I'm a good coder and know one when I see one. Tom
writes good code.

I don't know if I am a good coder but I will never say that someone who
codes a Jacobi function (with big integer parameters) as a recursive
function is a good coder.

Well, we are talking about his work because he put it on the table. As
usual, each time someone nitpicks about his behaviour, he immediately
hides himself behind his work, "I contribute, I have millions of users",
etc. etc. What is curious is that he uses his work as a shield and he
is always surprised when his work get blows.
Now, since you are there, what do you think about the way he recently
and publicly insulted Schneier? Very frankly. What would you like to
tell your co-author when you see him claiming that Schneier is just good
to produce "mindless crap"?

mm
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