{"id":1387,"date":"2006-08-16T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/08\/16\/bruce-schneier-facts-something-for-everyone\/"},"modified":"2006-08-16T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T23:01:00","slug":"bruce-schneier-facts-something-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/08\/16\/bruce-schneier-facts-something-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Schneier Facts: something for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The math geek in me likes these random facts about the renowned, nay, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">mythical<\/span> security expert:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geekz.co.uk\/schneierfacts\/fact\/24\">#24:<\/a> Bruce Schneier once found three distinct natural number divisors of a prime number.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geekz.co.uk\/schneierfacts\/fact\/51\">#51:<\/a> When Bruce Schneier does modulo arithmetic, there are no remainders. Ever.<\/p>\n<p>The puzzler in me loves these:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geekz.co.uk\/schneierfacts\/fact\/40\">#40:<\/a> A vigenere cipher with the Key &#8220;BRUCESCHNEIER&#8221; is in fact unbreakable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geekz.co.uk\/schneierfacts\/fact\/61\">#61:<\/a> When Bruce Schneier uses double ROT13 encryption, the ciphertext is totally unbreakable.<\/p>\n<p>And the writer in me thinks these are classic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geekz.co.uk\/schneierfacts\/fact\/33\">#33:<\/a> Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by generating random alphanumeric text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geekz.co.uk\/schneierfacts\/fact\/27\">#27:<\/a> Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Absurdity.  It&#8217;s not just for breakfast any more.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/his-security-fu-is-strong.html\">John Rogers<\/a> for the pointer, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chucknorrisfacts.com\/\">Chuck Norris Facts<\/a> for inspiring the spinoff.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The math geek in me likes these random facts about the renowned, nay, mythical security expert: #24: Bruce Schneier once found three distinct natural number divisors of a prime number. #51: When Bruce Schneier does modulo arithmetic, there are no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}