“"So it's tempting to incorporate a smaller resolver library into qmail. […] I'd no longer be able to blame the BIND authors and vendors for the fact that attackers can easily use DNS to steal mail." [From the file "THOUGHTS" of the qmail distribution]”

—  Daniel J. Bernstein

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American mathematician, cryptologist and programmer 1971

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