Timeline for Why is writing your own encryption discouraged?
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| Feb 2, 2017 at 15:14 | comment | added | Luaan | @wizzwizz4 I'd say the most important contribution of Linus was the popularisation. For most people (even "geeks"), GNU is just a bunch of commie-sounding weirdos with far higher proportion of bearded people, if they even heard about them. Linus was the college kid who said to the geek community at large: look at this cool thing I did. It was small, simple, fun - and it worked (albeit as a rather bare, ~386 exclusive system). | |
| Jan 30, 2017 at 11:59 | comment | added | Matija Nalis | @immibis that is why one might just prefer to use distribution name instead (perhaps detailed with desktop environment and other info if important for question being asked), for example "Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 with GNOME" or "Cyanogenmod 10.2" . While they both use Linux, that's where most of the similarities end - Debian GNU/Linux is way more like Debian GNU/kFreeBSD than to Android, despite the fact that Debian GNU/kFreeBSD does not contain Linux at all. | |
| Jan 30, 2017 at 10:56 | comment | added | MauganRa | @wizzwizz4 I'm sure JörgWMittag had the kernel developers in mind... | |
| Jan 30, 2017 at 5:23 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | It's actually GNU/Mozilla/Google/Apache/Oracle/.../Linux, thank you very much. /s | |
| Jan 28, 2017 at 8:16 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | @JörgWMittag Linus Torvalds actually just wrote the kernel. And he wasn't joined by an ever-growing team; that team was already there and had created hundreds of programs for the GNU operating system. They didn't have a kernel though, so when Linus bundled the operating system with Linux as a demonstration of the kernel, people thought the whole thing was called Linux and that it was all created by Linus Torvalds, which the people who worked on the GNU project are annoyed about (because Linus' ideals are different from theirs, which were the reason they created GNU). Some call it GNU/Linux. | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 13:32 | comment | added | David Richerby | I disagree with this analogy. Any competent programmer can write an invertible function from strings to strings in half an hour, and think they have a secure cypher. The amount of effort required to get a compiler or operating system to the point where you might even think about security vulnerabilities is many orders of magnitude greater. | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 9:56 | comment | added | CodesInChaos | The big difference is that you notice when you fail at one of the above problems. Bad encryption on the other hand works fine but just isn't secure. | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 0:59 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | +1! Linus Torvalds kind-of did that, he wrote an operating system just out of curiosity. BUT! He is the exception to the rule, AND he accidentally stumbled into a big void in the market, AND he was quickly joined by an ever-growing team, AND it still took 10-20 years to get production-ready (depending on your exact definition of "production" and "ready"). | |
| Jan 26, 2017 at 19:35 | comment | added | MPW | This really says it all. +1. | |
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| Jan 26, 2017 at 18:47 | history | answered | user43290 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |