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vlovich123
15 hours ago
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on: Big advance on simple-sounding math problem was a century in the making
My bad. You’re right. It was group theory and cryptanalysis. Number theory comes in later in the 1970s for public key cryptography (1976 publicly, early 1970s at GCHQ). So the military work on it really started in the late 1960s.
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