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by rfoo 1245 days ago
> (see also djb’s paper about qmail security)

You mean the guy who refused to fix an integer overflow bug, claiming it isn't practical to exploit then 64-bit really happened then years later suddenly the fine guys at Qualys decided to have fun? [1] Sure, he is a crypto expert and we're all grateful for his work on curve25519, salsa/chacha, nacl, djbsort, etc (and I'm sure I missed a lot). This does not mean he is an expert on weird machine.

[1] https://www.qualys.com/2020/05/19/cve-2005-1513/remote-code-...

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No, I don’t mean the guy. I mean the paper.