Jef Poskanzer
Jeffrey A. Poskanzer is a computer programmer. He was the first person to post a weekly FAQ to Usenet. He developed the portable pixmap file format and pbmplus (the precursor to the Netpbm package) to manipulate it.[1] He has also worked on the team that ported A/UX.[2] He has shared in two USENIX Lifetime Achievement Awards – in 1993 for Berkeley Unix, and in 1996 for the Software Tools Project.
Jeffrey A. Poskanzer | |
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| Occupation | computer programmer |
| Known for | pbmplus |
He owns the Internet address acme.com (which is notable for receiving over one million e-mail spams a day[3]), which is the home page for ACME Laboratories. It hosts a number of open source software projects; major projects maintained include both pbmplus and thttpd, an open source web server.
Notes
- "Netpbm History". Retrieved September 11, 2016.
- "Jef Poskanzer's Web Page". Retrieved September 11, 2016.
- "Mail Filtering - Introduction". acme.com. Retrieved 2016-09-16.
gollark: So it's literally just "security" through obscurity and being hard to cryptanalyze?
gollark: Oh, that, yes.
gollark: > in case of a computer, if you controll it, you can eaisly leak the ciphertextI don't really understand what you mean.
gollark: Anyway, using computers allows you to do much more robust crypto.
gollark: So you have *approximate* length.
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