[Myrddin]

I've met both Phil Karn and Bruce Schneier. I know Phil a bit better due to our ham radio interests. Bruce frequently hung out in the lobby at UseNIX. Phil did a great implementation of TCP/IP on MSDOS. I ported it to my 68000 based Xenix to give that machine TCP/IP connectivity. Because that was a UNIX type OS, I did some optimizations to make the SLIP serial interface code more efficient. It was a big accomplishment to connect that Xenix machine to a SLIP link hosted at UCSD. Thanks to Brian Kantor, WB6CYT, for affording me that first hook to the internet in 1985.

[antiRepublicrat]

I've met both Phil Karn and Bruce Schneier.

You lucky bastard. I still think I was born a bit too late to have a lot of the fun I could have had.

BTW, the Skein hash algorithm made by Bruce and his usual collaborators is in the second round of the NIST hash function competition. Wish him luck. Their Twofish algorithm made it to the final five for the encryption standard, but didn't get chosen.