Matt Blaze wrote After the Afterword.
"Back in 1995, Bruce Schneier asked me to write an 'afterword' for the second edition of Applied Cryptography. Perhaps to his chagrin, I couldn't think of any better way to sum up a book about cryptography than to dismiss what was then a popular delusion about the subject: that it, above all else, held the secret for securing computers."
"Hmm. We've made some progress on #4 and #10, but basically, not much has changed in 15 years. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't really need to change a word. If I had to tweak it, I might add something about human factors in security, a poorly understood and hugely important subject if ever there was one. Or perhaps I could just repeat #1, the sorry state of software, ten times over. All in all, though, it still holds up pretty well."
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