{"id":83,"date":"2004-12-10T00:56:10","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/10\/like-unto-a-god-among-my-people\/"},"modified":"2004-12-10T00:56:10","modified_gmt":"2004-12-10T04:56:10","slug":"like-unto-a-god-among-my-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/10\/like-unto-a-god-among-my-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Like unto a God among my people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have I mentioned that Bruce Schneier<\/a> is like unto a God among my people?<\/p>\n

I mean the deep geeks, like me, are into him because he’s a leading cryptographer–his Twofish algorithm<\/a> (which I actually implemented in a product at the last company) was an AES candidate–and he’s written interesting technical<\/a> books<\/a> on cryptography.<\/p>\n

However, he’s also a writer on more general security issues, writing in an easily digested style that doesn’t sacrifice content. Everyone should follow his blog<\/a>, which is mostly a series of pointers to various articles and interviews, especially if they are going to talk about things like “homeland security”, and I would also recommend some of his popularist<\/a> books<\/a> to anyone interested in the topic.<\/p>\n

He lives in my favourite U.S. city, and we have some friends in common–I actually had a chance to go to his birthday party last year, although I couldn’t, sadly. I think if Counterpane ever offered me a job I might have to rethink my long standing position on moving to the U.S. for work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have I mentioned that Bruce Schneier is like unto a God among my people? I mean the deep geeks, like me, are into him because he’s a leading cryptographer–his Twofish algorithm (which I actually implemented in a product at the last company) was an AES candidate–and he’s written interesting technical books on cryptography. However, he’s also a writer on more… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-1l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}