[binwiederhier]

I read the beginning of the post and it looks quite interesting. I'll read the rest tomorrow when my mind is sharper.

I checked my blog and I also wrote a post about some crypto related things shortly after I purchased the book. It's a post about a bug in the JDK that I stumbled across, which I am certain I would not have understood without Bruce's book:

https://blog.heckel.io/2014/03/01/cipherinputstream-for-aead...

Btw, I was a bit of a fan boy back then and I got the signed copy of the book, haha.

[tptacek]

I am a lot more cynical about Schneier's influence on the practice of cryptography engineering today than I was when he and Ferguson (who I am not cynical about at all) wrote the book back in 2003.