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As usual with Quanta, the actual article didn’t explain anything well and was a waste of time (which is funny because Quanta is usually off the deep end with pa
by avazhi 2y ago
As usual with Quanta, the actual article didn’t explain anything well and was a waste of time (which is funny because Quanta is usually off the deep end with pages of esoteric babble that is gibberish except to genuine specialists. In this case, not only was there no ‘simple math’ - there was no math!). I’ve really got to stop clicking on Quanta links.
For an actually well written and deeply informative ‘how it works’ for public key cryptography, see:
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-the-crypto-story/?embedded-checkout=true#ledgers-bitcoin-blockchains https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-the-crypto-story/?em...