--- title: Trying to understand cryptography | daily.dev description: Discussion about "Trying to understand cryptography" on daily.dev - join the developer community canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/trying-to-understand-cryptography-v3zznin7t twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Trying to understand cryptography | daily.dev og:description: Discussion about "Trying to understand cryptography" on daily.dev - join the developer community og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/trying-to-understand-cryptography-v3zznin7t og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/V3zZnIN7T.png og:image:alt: Trying to understand cryptography og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Trying to understand cryptography **[Watercooler](https://daily.dev/sources/watercooler)** · [@ombratteng](https://daily.dev/ombratteng) · 14 upvotes · 0 comments ## Content I find cryptography to be quite interesting, but whenever I read something [like this](https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/uxWSeWBki_Q/m/wGjk6wcbAQAJ), all I can think of is this meme --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/trying-to-understand-cryptography-v3zznin7t) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/trying-to-understand-cryptography-v3zznin7t","headline":"Trying to understand cryptography","text":"Discussion about \"Trying to understand cryptography\" on daily.dev - join the developer community","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/trying-to-understand-cryptography-v3zznin7t","datePublished":"2023-10-30T15:34:11.491Z","dateModified":"2023-10-30T15:34:11.491Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Ole-Martin","url":"https://daily.dev/ombratteng","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1681525?v=4","description":"Web magician 🪄\nDigital Janitor 🧹","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Norwegian Tax Administration","logo":"https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=skatteetaten.no&sz=128"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":65360}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VCrACjU0--/f_auto,q_auto/v1698680051/posts/V3zZnIN7T","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":14},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"isPartOf":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://daily.dev/squads/watercooler","name":"Watercooler"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Watercooler","item":"https://daily.dev/squads/watercooler"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Trying to understand cryptography"}]} ```