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Galois Finite Fields and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

64 points • by ankitg12 • last Saturday at 8:34 AM • 3 comments • view on HN

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dboreham • today at 6:45 PM

I don't know that "Weirdly" is right for the polynomial equivalence -- isn't that what Galois was trying to do in the first place (prove things about polynomials such as the impossibility of analytic solutions to higher order polynomials, and the impossibility of constructing a heptagon)?

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