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I am not so much a Schneier fan, so if you feel like you need cover for leveling any kind of criticism against anything he says, don't worry too much. Are you sure you believe Schneier would know anything about the code quality of a specific IPSEC implementation --- or really, about the code quality of any IPSEC implementation?

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Alright, I will bite. What are your reasons for not liking Bruce?

(I can't wait for this)

I don't so much "not like him". But, compare cite records:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Serge+Vaudenay&hl=en...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=hans+dobberton&hl=en...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=eli+biham&...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=bruce+schneier...

oh is that all. An entire generation were taught cryptography on the back of AC, so he definitely the widest read crypto dev.

He is definitely the widest-read crypto dev. There can be no question of that.

Out of curiosity, who else is out there writing essay-length on crypto and security in general?

One of the better recent sites has been RSnake's:

http://ha.ckers.org/

But he just retired from blogging about netsec and is done with the industry, I think (a lot of ppl get sick of it, I left the sec industry 10+ years ago and never looked back)

rsnake doesn't do any crypto work. Like, at all. A fine guy to go to for XSS or SQLI.

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