What Michael Nielsen thinks about cryptography

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Physicist, writer and researcher, co-author of the standard textbook on quantum computation and quantum information.

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1. 7 Apr 2026

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

   Their wordsIdeas 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.

   ↗Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than usyoutube.com 12th of 26 in this recording