Notes from Crypto by Steven Levy

11 Mar 2020

Knuth reminded them of an interesting mathematical phenomenon: while it is child’s play to multiply a pair of prime numbers, reversing the process — a task known as factoring — is an assignment that could confound the devil himself.

12 Mar 2020

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T H E M A G I C W O R D S A R E S Q U E A M I S H O S S I F R A G E

13 Mar 2020

There were actually several different cryptographic standards that NIST would have to approve: one for digital signatures, one for encryption, one for key exchange, and so on.

Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) was written by an NSA employee named David Kravitz.

18 Mar 2020

“Cryptography is the mathematical consequence of paranoid assumptions.”