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I did not realize scrypt was invented to secure Tarsnap backups. Funny. I imagined the backup problem as being a matter of just careful engineering and the pbkdf problem as requiring novel insight. Solving the latter to improve the former is pretty cool.

Anyway, this guy walks the walk. But how did he do on the Putnam?




I bet he didn't even crack the top ten.


Not that it matters, but #6: https://kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/putnam1999results.html


This whole rhetorical question/joke was a reference to "the comeback of all time" (also involving Colin Percival):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079


#6 alphabetically, yes.

They don't announce the ranks of the top 6 because they want to just say that all the Putnam Fellows won without drawing distinctions between them.




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