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9 Adieu

In this note we've discussed just a few ideas related to cryptography. There are many others, most of which use quite sophisticated mathematics. The National Security Agency, which is the U.S. government agency dealing with cryptography, is reportedly also the largest employer of mathematicians in the world. (We don't really know, because they keep this information secret!)



Scott Sutherland
2005-10-26