Interesting Stuff

…is Bruce Schneier, the world-renowned security guru. From the website,

• Bruce Schneier’s abs are NP-hard.
• Bruce Schneier’s mail server only sends him the emails’ hashes, just to make things a little more interesting for him.
• Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by generating random alphanumeric text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it.
• Though a superhero, Bruce Schneier disdanes the use of a mask or secret identity as ‘security through obscurity’.
• Bruce Schneier can straighten out an elliptic curve with nothing but his teeth
• Bruce Schneier’s tears can burn holes through an OpenBSD firewall. Lucky for us, Bruce Schneier never cries.
• Bruce Schneier factors integers in constant time.
• Bruce Schneier doesn’t need to hide data with steganography – data hides from Bruce Schneier
• Bruce Schneier reads RFID cards with the knuckles of his clenched fist.
• Bruce Schneier is not balding, you just can’t see the encrypted portions of his hair.
• Bruce Schneier doesn’t need full vulnerability disclosure because he already knows.
• For Bruce Schneier, SHA-1 is merely a compression algorithm.
• Bruce Schneier gets the jokes in the Voynich MS.

That last one is a bit obscure, but any mention of the Voynich Manuscript brings a smile to people in the know. Enjoy!