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Only 4 steps stand between you and the secrets hidden behind RSA cryptography. Find out how to crack the world’s most commonly used form of encryption.

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Can We Combine pi & e into a Rational Number?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG7cCXqcJag&t=25s

Links to other resources:

Shor's paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9508027v2

Lecture on Shor's Algorithm: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0010034.pdf

Blog on Shor's algorithm: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=208

Video on RSA cryptography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXB-V_Keiu8

Another video on RSA cryptography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zahvcJ9glg

Euler's Big Idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_theorem (I can find a non-wiki article, but I don't actually use this in the video. It's just where to learn more about the relevant math Euler did.)

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Challenge Winner - Reddles37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG7cCXqcJag&lc=z135cnmgxlbwch1ds233sbzgaojkivaz004

Comments answered by Kelsey:

Joel David Hamkins
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PCreeper394
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