Comment by vlovich123 18 hours ago And number theory was critical to breaking enigma. So they were all used within 5 years. 2 comments vlovich123 Reply l33t7332273 17 hours ago Was it? My understanding was that they didn’t use number theoretic approaches. vlovich123 13 hours ago My bad. You’re right. It was group theory and cryptanalysis. Number theory comes in later in the 1970s for public key cryptography (1976 publicly, early 1970s at GCHQ). So the military work on it really started in the late 1960s.
l33t7332273 17 hours ago Was it? My understanding was that they didn’t use number theoretic approaches. vlovich123 13 hours ago My bad. You’re right. It was group theory and cryptanalysis. Number theory comes in later in the 1970s for public key cryptography (1976 publicly, early 1970s at GCHQ). So the military work on it really started in the late 1960s.
vlovich123 13 hours ago My bad. You’re right. It was group theory and cryptanalysis. Number theory comes in later in the 1970s for public key cryptography (1976 publicly, early 1970s at GCHQ). So the military work on it really started in the late 1960s.
Was it? My understanding was that they didn’t use number theoretic approaches.
My bad. You’re right. It was group theory and cryptanalysis. Number theory comes in later in the 1970s for public key cryptography (1976 publicly, early 1970s at GCHQ). So the military work on it really started in the late 1960s.