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I think it would be hard to argue that any other single modern algorithm had as much effect on the world as RSA.
by brl 18y ago
I think it would be hard to argue that any other single modern algorithm had as much effect on the world as RSA.
- corentin 18y agoMP3?
- russell 18y agoDiscrete cosine transform and its variants gave us jpeg and mp3
- brl 18y agoOh, you're absolutely right of course. I completely overlooked that. In that case, I think that the top two prizes should go to one Fourier transform related algorithm and one algorithm from public-key cryptography.