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To: Nachum

Former National Security Agency crypto-mathematician Bill Binney

I know crypto zoologists look for bigfoot and Nessie. Do crypto mathematicians look for magic numbers or find pi to the last digit?

3 posted on 08/21/2014 1:34:51 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)

To: Vaquero

>> Do crypto mathematicians look for magic

Relatively speaking, yes.

5 posted on 08/21/2014 1:38:04 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)

To: Vaquero

I think they mean Cryptography, ie the study of Encraption..

6 posted on 08/21/2014 1:41:26 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)

To: Vaquero

I know crypto zoologists look for bigfoot and Nessie. Do crypto mathematicians look for magic numbers or find pi to the last digit?

Yes

8 posted on 08/21/2014 1:45:43 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)

To: Vaquero

Do crypto mathematicians look for magic numbers or find pi to the last digit?

Spock has the 'Puter still working it.

Click

14 posted on 08/21/2014 2:17:31 PM PDT by Red Steel

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