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So apparently there's this very well-known part of cryptography called 'Nonces'. As in a plural of Nonce. AKA 'number used only once'. They've came up constantly during my module. For those of you who don't know, nonce is the British slang word for pedophile.

And my poor, foreign cryptography lecturer doesn't know this.


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4 years ago

Happy Pride!

Alan Turing, one of the best computer scientists and programmers ever, was gay. The world lost him at a young age because he wasn’t treated with the kindness every human deserves. 

Be nice to your fellow person. Be they a mathematical prodigy or an innominate stranger, everyone deserves to love and be loved. 

Some articles about Turing:

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/alan-turing-a-prodigy-whose-life-was-curtailed-for-being-homosexual-5bd5e686c1c0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/12/24/alan-turing-was-a-war-hero-prosecuted-for-being-gay-he-finally-got-a-pardon/


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