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> The NSA is many things, but "bad at Math" isn't one of them. I agree, and with the pedigree of cryptology that has come from the NSA (and with alumni like Kn
by toomanybeersies 11y ago
> The NSA is many things, but "bad at Math" isn't one of them.
I agree, and with the pedigree of cryptology that has come from the NSA (and with alumni like Knuth), that's very well established.
But non-technical people tend to have a habit of taking technically brilliant (and often specific) things and using them in a way that they were never designed or intended.
- gjm11 11y ago> alumni like Knuth To the best of my knowledge, Knuth never worked for the NSA. (He did briefly work for the IDA CRD -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Defense_Analyses#Center_for_Communications_and_Computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Defense_Analyses... -- which in turn did some work for the NSA, but that's not the same thing.)