Re:NSA “precomputed contact chaining” enhances phone-record ...
by anonobviosly on Sunday May 24, 2020 @02:59PM
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>Field's medals
The UK equivalent of the NSA invented both RSA encryption and DH key exchange years before any of Diffie, Hellman, Rivest, Shamir, or Adleman did their work. No Fields medal per se, but two Turing awards...
I think the odds that the largest employer of mathematicians in the world is secretly sitting on ground breaking fundamental math is pretty high.
The UK equivalent of the NSA invented both RSA encryption and DH key exchange years before any of Diffie, Hellman, Rivest, Shamir, or Adleman did their work. No Fields medal per se, but two Turing awards...
I think the odds that the largest employer of mathematicians in the world is secretly sitting on ground breaking fundamental math is pretty high.