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neal koblitz is uhhhh maybe the coolest motherfucker alive
This book is dedicated to the memory of the students of Vietnam, Nicaragua and El Salvador who lost their lives in the struggle against U.S. aggression. The author's royalties from sales of the book will be used to buy mathematics and science books for the universities and institutes of those three countries.
he also mentions the NSA in the first paragraph of the foreword. dude is not fucking around
from "a course in number theory and cryptography", second edition
unfortunately he believes gauss is real but that's not his fault i too believed gauss was not a failson for many years
In earlier ages this type of system would not have seemed to have any particularly striking advantages. Traditionally, cryptography was used mainly for military and diplomatic purposes. Usually there was a small, well-defined group of users who could all share a system of keys , and new keys could be distributed periodically (using couriers) so as to keep the enemy guessing.
Two parties may share a secret communication on one occasion,
and then a little later one of them may want to send a confidential message to a third party. That is, the "alliances" - who is sharing a secret with whom - may be continually shifting. It might be impractical always to be exchanging keys with all possible confidential correspondents.
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