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Re:Solving the Australian Signals Directorate cryptography c... by i_like_apis on Saturday September 03, 2022 @11:14PM (#32709436)
Looks like the NSA puzzles are a lot harder.
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Re:Solving the Australian Signals Directorate cryptography c... by keyle on Sunday September 04, 2022 @01:30AM (#32710117)
I don't think it aimed at being achievable only by few.

They mentioned in the release of the coin that it was celebratory. So if it brings kids to being aware of such puzzles and gets the press to open more eyes to it, it's a bigger win than some super nerdy puzzle designed to hire future analysts.

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Re:Solving the Australian Signals Directorate cryptography c... by defrost on Sunday September 04, 2022 @12:41AM (#32709900)
Or kids in Australia are smarter ...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao

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Re:Solving the Australian Signals Directorate cryptography c... by bamboozled on Sunday September 04, 2022 @03:14AM (#32710655)
What does this link have to do with anything, it says he is an Australian-American mathematician originally from HK. Not sure how this works that smoothly to demonstrate your point.
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Re:Solving the Australian Signals Directorate cryptography c... by handspun on Sunday September 04, 2022 @03:32AM (#32710740)
Just to clarify, his parents were from Hong Kong. Terrence was born, raised, and schooled in Adelaide, Australia. He completed his Bachelors and Masters at Flinders University by the age of 16.
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Re:Solving the Australian Signals Directorate cryptography c... by defrost on Sunday September 04, 2022 @08:30PM (#32719170)
As clarified by handspun Terry was born, raised, educated here in Australia - largely homeschooled he had support from the Australian public school and university system which did at the time a pretty decent job of lifting young talent, he was part of the same undergrad math club group that had Paul Erdos visiting that spawned a few crypto punks, cosmologists, math professors, etc.
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