Well you're not going to like when I say this. Cryptography isn't Computer Science. It uses some things that Computer Science developed but it isn't Computer S

Well you're not going to like when I say this. Cryptography isn't Computer Science. It uses some things that Computer Science developed but it isn't Computer Science. It's applied Math. If Cryptography is in CS then Nuclear Reactor Operations is in CS. NRO uses computers for monitoring systems and develops algorithms to detect certian... ahm... undesierable states. That doesn't mean we should move a reactor into the CS building at every college near you (although I'd love to work on one eventually, sounds like cool work). Academics may think that crypto is a CS field but the work involved has absolutly nothing to do with CS. For example, all cryptographic functions can be implemented in hardware. If you are building a cryptographic function in hardware, you're not part of the Electical Engineering department or the Mechanical Engineering department you are still in the Math department because all you're doing is implementing an abstract design. (Insert unintelegable "get off my lawn" statement)