A prize for “real-world cryptography” was given to programmers behind AES and the Signal app

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screen-shot-2017-01-05-at-5-13-19-pm This week I had the chance to visit Columbia University to meet with Max Levchin, currently the CEO of financial company Affirm and one of the co-founders of PayPal. He was in the Lerner Hall auditorium surrounded by a large flock of programmers belonging to a special branch of the field: cryptology. They were all there vying for the second annual Levchin Prize. Levchin started the award… Read More