Boneh: Cryptography uniquely bridges deep theoretical math with global real-world deployment
Dan Boneh · a16z Podcast | Crypto, Security, CS, Quantum Computing, and More with Our New Professor-in-Residence · Jan 2, 2019 · at 7:00
Dan Boneh, Stanford Professor of Computer Science and a16z Professor-in-Residence, reflects on how cryptography uniquely combines abstract mathematics with massive practical deployment.
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“It's one of the few areas, I have to say, where you can do deep mathematics, and at the same time, it would be extremely applied and deployed and used by billions of people all over the world.”
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