Jerry Coffin

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Started programming on a Control Data mainframe in FORTRAN IV, back when that was still a new thing. Was apparently quite masochistic, because I kept programming anyway. For that matter, I still do...

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9	Why is elliptic curve cryptography not widely used, compared to RSA?
7	Which algorithms are used to factorize large integers?
3	What is pre-image resistance, and how can the lack thereof be exploited?
3	Is there a hash function with 2048bit output?
2	Why would you expect to find a collision in a hash function after approximately $\sqrt{n}$ hashes?

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+10	Is modern encryption needlessly complicated?
+60	Why is elliptic curve cryptography not widely used, compared to RSA?
+25	What algorithm would give the shortest ciphertext for very short plaintexts?
+10	Which algorithms are used to factorize large integers?

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10 rsa × 2	7 number-theory
9 elliptic-curves	5 hash-collision × 2
9 public-key	3 preimage-resistance
8 hash × 3	3 collision-resistance
7 factorization	2 cryptanalysis × 3