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DJB's Cryptographic Odyssey: From Code Hero to Standards Gadfly

crypto_watchdog Saturday, February 21, 2026
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The article chronicles the cryptographic journey of Daniel J. Bernstein (djb), a renowned cryptographer and computer scientist, exploring his contributions to the field of cryptography, including the development of the ChaCha20 cipher and the Curve25519 elliptic curve.
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