skalibs Software skarnet.org Dan J. Bernstein is a cryptologist and a mathematician; he's also the author of a widely known and used MTA, qmail , as well as a few lesser known pieces of software. For some time he was quite active in some Unix software-related Internet newsgroups and mailing-lists; he quickly became a controversial figure of the Unix programming community, mostly by being extremely vocal against well-known authors of "mainstream" Unix software and by suggesting designs so removed from traditional software design that a normal human reaction is to first view him as a complete nut. I do not care for controversy. I am interested in the code. I was a sysadmin at the time, and still learning to program in C beyond what they teach you in school (i.e. not much). I had heard enough horror stories with sendmail; so I gave a shot at qmail, trying to understand its des...