2026.10.12 18:20:43 (Mastodon 117429321281963514, Twitter 2109710892614967788) from Daniel J. Bernstein:
Like you, I have a job trying to solve real-world problems. Did you realize how much of our tax money goes to pure mathematicians wandering around inventing and understanding pointless theory stuff like this PDF? https://web.archive.org/web/20031205035441/https://mast.queensu.ca/~kani/papers/numgenl.pdf Oh, oops, wait: https://www.quantamagazine.org/post-quantum-cryptography-scheme-is-cracked-on-a-laptop-20220824/