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Every time I read one of your comments, it is a fascinating look into cryptography. Now you're telling me you were part of the OpenBSD team?

I guess I need to search through your past comments, and a quick Google indicates I missed this.

Every time you comment here you make me feel so lazy. Haha.

Not really. I had commit privileges (a year earlier I had them briefly on FreeBSD, because of the crt0.c bug) but I used them I think twice, once to do something to ping(8) and once to add RADIUS support to tcpdump. I did however write many of the OpenBSD security advisories, and participated in the audit. In 1997, when I moved to Calgary for a few months to work for Secure Networks, Theo was the first person I met there.

To this day I still don't know how to use icb, which if you're an OpenBSD person tells you how much a part of that team I was.

I'm not smart or anything. I'm just (I assume) older than you are. And I got a very early start. That FreeBSD thing happened the year after I graduated high school. I skipped college and went right into dev.

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