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		l33t7332273 on Oct 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Big advance on simple-sounding math problem was a ... Was it? My understanding was that they didn’t use number theoretic approaches.

vlovich123 on Oct 16, 2024 [–]

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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