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Friend of mine was working in cryptography. His PhD topic was about proving that a cryptographic scheme was secure (for some definition). It took him two months
by Yoric 2y ago
Friend of mine was working in cryptography. His PhD topic was about proving that a cryptographic scheme was secure (for some definition). It took him two months to break the scheme. Sadly, said scheme was key to the funding of his PhD advisor, so the advisor tried to prevent him from publishing findings.
Things end mostly well, with my friend publishing, then restarting his PhD with a different advisor, then leaving academia entirely.
- aprilthird2021 2y agoSo it didn't end well. Your friend had no career in academia because he criticized his master's work
- Yoric 2y agoHe seems happy with his current work, so I'd say it ends well for him. Academia did lose one (more) brilliant researcher, though, so it doesn't end well for academia.