How to Break Cryptography

The video explores the challenge of cracking secure messages by factoring large numbers, a task difficult for classical computers but potentially solvable by quantum computers using Shor's Algorithm. It introduces modular arithmetic and its periodic properties, which are crucial for understanding the algorithm. The video also addresses viewer comments on previous episodes, discussing mathematical curiosities involving the numbers E and pi.

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