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Cryptography really needs this. Both the Stack Exchange and the Reddit for crypto will typically have at the top of the pile:

1 x post from a cryptocurrency newbie, happy to find an audience who undoubtedly want to buy their FlappyBirdCoins. HODL HODL! We're going to the sky! Actually this post _is_ appropriate and it IS on topic and you're only saying it isn't because you don't understand digital currency is the future. (Grr)

2 x post from people who've read about the One Time Pad and are now convinced their grade school cipher is better and here's 40 characters of output - bet you can't break it. No I didn't read the instructions saying not to do this, I'm too smart to need to read instructions.

1 x post from somebody with a basic grasp who has a real but fairly trivial question, like, why is the exponent 65537 used for RSA ? This question may or may not just be their homework.

1 x post that is a good question but shouldn't be filed here, like, how do I configure Apache to enable TLS 1.3 ?

1 x post which is actually appropriate, like why does this algorithm say to use a pseudo-prime P when it only seems to be important that A isn't a factor of P ? Doesn't this 1987 journal paper I found show that it would work for other values just fine ?




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