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by jackmaney 4571 days ago
"The team behind Telegram, led by Nikolai Durov, consists of six ACM champions, half of them Ph.Ds in math."

In what areas of mathematics did these PhDs specialize? I hold a PhD in mathematics, but I would not feel comfortable rolling my own cryptographic algorithms for use in production (I'm a commutative algebraist by training).