EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW IS RIGGED TO LOOK A CERTAIN WAY THROUGH A CAREFULLY CONTROLLED MEDIUM. EXCEPT MATH They can’t rig math. They can rig how it’s used and what it says and they can demoralize you into not learning it or seeing for yourself what is knowable. They can co-opt its applications. But they cannot undo Euclid, Euler, or Gauss. Learn math and learn who these men were if you want to have a fighting chance against those who can rig everything you think you know.
I cannot stress enough the importance of modular arithmetic - the math where we divide and focus only on remainders Take any number N (preferably a prime - let’s use N= 5) (Here = is congruence ) 1(mod5) = 1 2(mod5) = 2 3(mod5) = 3 4(mod5) = 4 5(mod5) = 0 6(mod5) = 1 7(mod5) = 2 8(mod5) = 3 9(mod5) = 4 10(mod5) = 0 You seeing it? 3483638(mod5) = 3 Being good at this is SO IMPORTANT to learning cryptography. You have to be just as comfortable with these operations as nerds are with the other usual ones (addition, multiplication, etc)
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