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I feel the opposite. All this stuff and even more hardcore crypto stuff is all relatively simple math. It's not even close to comparable to the things mathemati
by rowanG077 5y ago
I feel the opposite. All this stuff and even more hardcore crypto stuff is all relatively simple math. It's not even close to comparable to the things mathematicians do. Or even what physicist have achieved with LHC or fusion research.
- vore 5y agoSurely cracking cryptographic algorithms is pretty hard math given people don't have that much success with it, even with a huge incentive (decrypting all communications worldwide)?
- rowanG077 5y agoIt's considered to be impossible. I doubt there is much (if any) serious research going on to mathematically crack RSA or ECC. Besides that is not what OP was talking about. That was about hackers finding standard vulnerabilities in code and exploiting it. Not about any mathematical flaws in crypto.