Re:Lines of code that changed everything
by rabidrat on Thursday November 28, 2019 @03:51AM
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I enjoyed the stories, many were new for me, but this was a major foul:
> But the RSA encryption algorithm—one of the basic building blocks of modern cryptography—is elegant enough that it can be written out in just four dense lines of Perl code … short enough to fit on a T-shirt.
And of course it has nothing to do with the elegance of RSA, but the largeness of Perl.
> But the RSA encryption algorithm—one of the basic building blocks of modern cryptography—is elegant enough that it can be written out in just four dense lines of Perl code … short enough to fit on a T-shirt.
And of course it has nothing to do with the elegance of RSA, but the largeness of Perl.