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This document is page 165 of a book or educational text titled 'Complexity & Chaos'. It features an image of a 'Bubble Sort Ballet' created by Sapientia University. The text discusses 'The Hardest Problems' in computer science, specifically explaining RSA encryption (developed at MIT in 1977 by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman) and introducing 'NP' (non-deterministic polynomial) problems. The document bears the footer 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015855', indicating it was included in a document production for the House Oversight Committee, likely related to investigations into Jeffrey Epstein's connections to MIT and scientific funding, though Epstein is not explicitly named on this specific page.
People (3)
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| Ron Rivest | Cryptographer/Scientist |
Co-developer of RSA encryption at MIT in 1977
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| Adi Shamir | Cryptographer/Scientist |
Co-developer of RSA encryption at MIT in 1977
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| Leonard Adleman | Cryptographer/Scientist |
Co-developer of RSA encryption at MIT in 1977
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| MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where RSA encryption was developed
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| Sapientia University |
Creator of the 'Bubble Sort Ballet' visualization shown in the image
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| Maros Művészegyüttes |
Co-operator in creating the 'Bubble Sort Ballet' visualization
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| AlgoRythmics |
Facebook page referenced in the image
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| House Oversight Committee |
Source of the document production (implied by footer)
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Institution where RSA was developed
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Relationships (3)
Co-developed RSA encryption together
Co-developed RSA encryption together
Co-developed RSA encryption together
Key Quotes (2)
"The data you send to the Internet is coded using a system developed in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman of MIT, which is why it is called RSA encryption."Source
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"NP problems are easy to describe but fiendishly difficult to solve."Source
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Complexity & Chaos
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[Image Text Top Left]: facebook.com/AlgoRythmics
[Image Text Top Right]: Intercultural Computer Science Education
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[Image Text Bottom]: Created at Sapientia University (in cooperation with "Maros Művészegyüttes")
[Image Text Top Right]: Intercultural Computer Science Education
[Image Text Center]: a[0] a[1] a[2] a[3] a[4] a[5] a[6] a[7] a[8] a[9]
[Image Text Bottom]: Created at Sapientia University (in cooperation with "Maros Művészegyüttes")
Bubble Sort Ballet
The Hardest Problems
You probably hope cracking the encryption used to secure the Internet is one of the hardest problems known to man but I’m sorry to tell you it is not. When you use your credit card to buy something from an online shop, your web browser changes from http to https, the ‘s’ stands for secure. The data you send to the Internet is coded using a system developed in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman of MIT, which is why it is called RSA encryption. Any information you send is raised to the power of a very large number – usually around one hundred digits long. Raising something to the power simply means multiplying it by itself that many times.
You probably hope cracking the encryption used to secure the Internet is one of the hardest problems known to man but I’m sorry to tell you it is not. When you use your credit card to buy something from an online shop, your web browser changes from http to https, the ‘s’ stands for secure. The data you send to the Internet is coded using a system developed in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman of MIT, which is why it is called RSA encryption. Any information you send is raised to the power of a very large number – usually around one hundred digits long. Raising something to the power simply means multiplying it by itself that many times.
What makes decrypting a message hard is that division is a slow process; it is called ‘long division’ for a reason. It turns out there is no way to speed it up on a conventional computer so, unless you know the right number to divide by you will have to try every number. It is this that makes decrypting RSA messages hard.
Although RSA messages are difficult to decipher, they are nowhere near the hardest problems. That accolade is commonly believed to go to non-deterministic polynomial problems known as ‘NP’ problems. NP problems are easy to describe but fiendishly difficult to solve. Nondeterministic means each time you come to a branch in the problem there is no way to tell which branch is the best to pursue without exploring it all the way to the end. It’s the same as a maze; at each junction in the maze you can decide which path to take, but the junction gives you no
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