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by vezzy-fnord 4631 days ago
I found Sneakers a little disappointing.

Don't get me wrong, it was a pretty decent 90s thriller. Very charming. But the way it was described made it out to be as if it portrayed complex cryptographic and technical concepts.

All I really saw was an anagram and some idealized substitution cipher. Fun film, misleading summary.

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But Adleman, the scientist behind the assessment, is one of the most prominent cryptographers and number theorists.