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by anonobviosly 2216 days ago
>Field's medals

The UK equivalent of the NSA invented both RSA encryption and DH key exchange years before any of Diffie, Hellman, Rivest, Shamir, or Adleman did their work. No Fields medal per se, but two Turing awards...

I think the odds that the largest employer of mathematicians in the world is secretly sitting on ground breaking fundamental math is pretty high.