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by OhMeadhbh 32 days ago
Well, hell. I only new Peter peripherally, but every time I met him he was a wonderful human. I built cryptography libraries in the 90s and Peter was responsible for expanding my thinking about the systems surrounding security controls and (not surprisingly) their associated risks. And he did it with great patience, speaking to me (and everyone else) at a level we could understand, but never patronizing. I would bump into him at a conference one year and he would suggest a direction of study or experiment. At the next conference I saw him at I would report my findings (or send them to the RISKS list) and then there would be another, interesting direction suggested.

There's a Peter-shaped-hole in Sili Valley tech culture.