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Re: [Cryptography] Chinese Cryptography

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sandy Harris)
Thu Dec 19 17:56:28 2013

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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:21:42 -0500
From: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 2:56 PM, james hughes <hughejp@mac.com> wrote:

> No, it=92s not "all stolen from America", they have universities, ...
>
> Cryptographers of Chinese origin have made significant advances in wester=
n Cryptography.
>         Xuejia Lai: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Data_Encry=
ption_Algorithm
>         Xiaoyun Wang: The startling demise of MD5
>         Andrew Chi-Chih Yao: Received the turing award for complexity-bas=
ed theory of pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communicatio=
n complexity.

I worked for a while as an editor at Shanghai Jiatong U, in Lai's departmen=
t,
improving the English in papers that various people there were sending off
to conferences and journals. The English ranged from appalling to excellent.
The range of topics I saw papers on was very broad, as was the range of
journals & conferences they were going to. The quality of the work, as far
as I could tell, varied fairly widely as I think it might at any university.

However, I can say quite definitely that some of the grad students doing
crypto stuff with Lai and others were very sharp indeed.
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