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Very deep principles lie hidden inside theories we already have: public key cryptography was already implicit in the 1930s theory of computation.

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cryptography Keeping a computation secret from the machine running it -- obfuscation, permutations, and what has been proved.

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  1. Michael Nielsen

    Physicist, writer and researcher

    Ideas like public key cryptography are I mean, they're just incredibly deep um very non-obvious ideas uh which in some sense lay hidden uh already sort of in in the 1930s.

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