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[–] TheBuddha [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

You're a bit older than I, but not much. In my academic career, I had very little exposure to cryptography. The reality is that computers lacked the power to do it well. So, we didn't.

That's a space that has changed greatly in the decades since.

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[–] cdinvb 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

And then there's Ivar Ekeland, if you are interested in a curious survey. The Broken Dice, and other titles. I had no exposure to cryptography, just the engineering/science sequence that I'd started b/c I was reading about how thinking about Nature changed from the time of Galileo to, say, 1800. Newton's "I do not feign hypotheses," etc. I was in liberal arts. The math was flat fascinating, and I could do it. So I kept taking another class, and another. - I read Bruce Schneier. Also scan news (less and less lately), reading with astonishment that systems are secured with plain-text passwords. Or unsalted. C'mon! - I'm still using HP calculators which came out back then. At this point it's a matter of perversity.

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[–] TheBuddha [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

You'd probably enjoy Slashdot. There's still some good commenting going on there. Hacker News (ycombinator) is also a good site.