[hawkice]

I actually really like the authenticity and humility of DJB including that in the instructions. I think it's likely many people trust his code (and he's certainly written a lot of extremely security sensitive stuff), but of course it's a much better practice to not trust him quite so much.

[judofyr]

> humility of DJB

Really? This is software where the author named it after himself, claims that it holds a new speed record with no comparisons benchmarks (just references a single number from a paper in 2015), uses the word "easily" FOUR times in the limitation-section without any links or explanations, and doesn't reference any other libraries/resources/software/solutions.

[Nokinside]

Knowing DJB and his track record those are just facts.

[viraptor]

Authenticity, sure. Humility - not after his approach to the students issue in recent years where he was more interested in being correct then helping people :-(

[linsomniac]

I was talking to another person in the community, now this was well over a decade ago, maybe two, with the initials "DJB". He said: "I went onto IRC once. I was mistaken for Daniel Bernstein. It was the most awful 15 minutes of my life."

I spoke to another fairly famous person a few years later, let's say author of the authoritative book on one of the alternatives for one of djb's software packages. He said something along the lines of: It's a shame djb gets along so poorly with other people, because he has a lot of good ideas.

So, agreed: Authenticity but not humility.

[gowld]

What is " the students issue "?

[viraptor]

I don't want to add more bias from my side, so I'll just point you at https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/845057003642933248 https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/845072847705919488 as starting points. You can google a few articles, discussions via the names involved.

[mcguire]

"...where he was more interested in being correct then helping people"

That does describe him pretty well.