For the Geek in us: Bruce Schneier Facts
For those of you that don't know: Bruce Schneier is to cryptography what Chuck Norris is to the round-house kick to the face awesomeness.
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Bruce Schneier once decrypted a box of AlphaBits.
Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes.
Bruce Schneier knows Alice and Bob's shared secret.
Vs lbh nfxrq Oehpr Fpuarvre gb qrpelcg guvf, ur'q pehfu lbhe fxhyy jvgu uvf ynhtu.
Bruce Schneier's secure handshake is so strong, you won't be able to exchange keys with anyone else for days.
Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by generating random alphanumeric text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it.
Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat
When Bruce Schneier observes a quantum particle, it remains in the same state until he has finished observing it.
If we built a Dyson sphere around Bruce Schneier and captured all of his energy for 2 months, without any loss, we could power an ideal computer running at 3.2 degrees K to count up to 2^256. This strongly implies that not only can Bruce Schneier brute-force attack 256-bit keys, but that he is built of something other than matter and occupies something other than space.
Though a superhero, Bruce Schneier disdanes the use of a mask or secret identity as 'security through obscurity'.
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Sweeping NSA reforms will soon require all employees to grow a Bruce Schneier beard.
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Stephen Hawking changed his opinion on the information paradox when he realized that not even black holes can hide information from Bruce Schneier.
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Quantum cryptography exchanged the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for the Schneier Dead Moral Certainty Principle when Bruce Schneier came to town.
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There is no chin behind Bruce Schneier's beard. There is only another pseudorandom number generator and he's gonna use it to encrypt your face.
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Bruce Schneier feeds Schrödinger's cat on his back porch. Without opening the box.
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Erwin Schrödinger had a mere cat; Bruce Schneier has a Bengal tiger.
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