On Sun, 3 Jul 2011, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Horrific news, as I am certain everyone here will agree. Len was a one-off who will be urgently missed on a daily basis for generations to come. Len "Wrote Code", "Ran Code", and everything else in-between. Never refusing a request for help, he gave more of himself on an average day than many give of themselves in decades. Peace out Len. Immediately on the heels of Len's earthshattering newsquake comes the first aftershock: Robert Morris is [finally?] dead at 78. At least Morris got to finish most if not all of his meal before he checked out: http://bangordailynews.com/2011/07/03/news/mathematician-and-cryptographer-r... http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/robert-morris-a-developer-of-... http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/124957294.html Etc... This is a July 4th weekend that the crypto and computing communities will remember for a very long time to come :-(( I sincerely hope there's no "third" to "round out" the already bad news today. //Alif -- I hate Missouri. Land of the free, home of the perjuriously deranged.