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October 10, 2005
All that DnD You Thought You'd Never Use
So you want to be a cypherpunk? Only if you're a gaming dork!
From the October 1999 Cryptogram Newsletter by Bruce Schneier, probably the famous-est cryptographer anywhere.
"Cryptography can be a specialty of mathematics. Wherever you get your degree, both mathematical and computer science training is vital. But more importantly, cryptography is a way of thinking. Elsewhere I've written about why security engineering is different from any other kind of engineering; it requires a certain kind of mentality to approach systems from an attacker's perspective. During World War II, the British found that the best cryptographers were chess players and musicians. I find that good security people are D&D players and tinkerers. The ability to find loopholes in a system, be they mathematical, systematical, or procedural, is vital to a cryptographer." [color change added]
And they say magic isn't real.
Posted by james at October 10, 2005 08:01 PM
Comments
Sweet. According to page 48, paragraph 4, subsection qq of the D&D players manual (3.5 addition)....
Posted by: jarrad at October 11, 2005 11:03 AM