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Sep 14, 2026 8 min

Encryption and Security Agencies - Computerphile

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News stories surface every day about how National Security Agencies have broken encryption, but what is media 'hype' and what's the truth? - Richard Mortier explains.Security of Data on Disk - Computerphile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SSSMi4X_mA Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miraclehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MijmeoH9LT4Random Numbers - Numberphile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxP30euw3-0Encryption and HUGE numbers - Numberphile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7kEpw1tn50http://www.facebook.com/computerphilehttps://twitter.com/computer_phileThis video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputerComputerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

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