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r/crypto
Cryptography news and discussions
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Cryptography is the art of creating mathematical assurances for who can do what with data, including but not limited to encryption of messages such that only the key-holder can read it. Cryptography lives at an intersection of math and computer science. This is a technical subreddit covering the theory and practice of modern and *strong* cryptography.
#Cryptography ... is the art of creating mathematical / information theoretic assurances for who can do what with data, including but not limited to the classical example of encrypting messages so that only the key-holder can read it. Cryptography lives at an intersection of math and [co...
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Total Submissions
40,991
Total Comments
156,158
Earliest Submission
December 18, 2008
Earliest Comment
April 30, 2009
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Rank↕ | Word↕ | Occurrences in Subreddit | Total Occurrences | Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) | Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) | Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 588 | 37,016 | 2408.0 | 0.3 | 7801.46 | |
| #2 | 207 | 19,519 | 847.7 | 0.2 | 5208.36 | |
| #3 | 114 | 15,230 | 466.9 | 0.1 | 3676.15 | |
| #4 | 191 | 31,581 | 782.2 | 0.3 | 2970.27 | |
| #5 | 135 | 23,119 | 552.9 | 0.2 | 2867.83 | |
| #6 | 459 | 88,044 | 1879.7 | 0.7 | 2560.36 | |
| #7 | 149 | 35,003 | 610.2 | 0.3 | 2090.59 | |
| #8 | 78 | 21,720 | 319.4 | 0.2 | 1763.69 | |
| #9 | 103 | 31,120 | 421.8 | 0.3 | 1625.49 | |
| #10 | 73 | 23,281 | 299.0 | 0.2 | 1539.96 | |
| #11 | 249 | 82,593 | 1019.7 | 0.7 | 1480.62 | |
| #12 | 53 | 17,739 | 217.0 | 0.1 | 1467.35 | |
| #13 | 145 | 50,314 | 593.8 | 0.4 | 1415.36 | |
| #14 | 48 | 17,625 | 196.6 | 0.1 | 1337.52 | |
| #15 | 45 | 16,839 | 184.3 | 0.1 | 1312.45 | |
| #16 | 72 | 27,852 | 294.9 | 0.2 | 1269.59 | |
| #17 | 43 | 16,758 | 176.1 | 0.1 | 1260.18 | |
| #18 | 313 | 124,259 | 1281.8 | 1.0 | 1237.10 | |
| #19 | 160 | 65,178 | 655.2 | 0.5 | 1205.61 | |
| #20 | 58 | 25,616 | 237.5 | 0.2 | 1112.00 | |
| #21 | 51 | 23,220 | 208.9 | 0.2 | 1078.69 | |
| #22 | 425 | 210,498 | 1740.5 | 1.8 | 991.58 | |
| #23 | 82 | 42,793 | 335.8 | 0.4 | 941.09 | |
| #24 | 43 | 24,277 | 176.1 | 0.2 | 869.88 | |
| #25 | 38 | 23,329 | 155.6 | 0.2 | 799.97 | |
| #26 | 105 | 71,410 | 430.0 | 0.6 | 722.13 | |
| #27 | 104 | 77,891 | 425.9 | 0.6 | 655.74 | |
| #28 | 31 | 23,508 | 127.0 | 0.2 | 647.64 | |
| #29 | 56 | 43,827 | 229.3 | 0.4 | 627.53 | |
| #30 | 39 | 30,620 | 159.7 | 0.3 | 625.53 | |
| #31 | 73 | 61,929 | 299.0 | 0.5 | 578.92 | |
| #32 | 51 | 45,108 | 208.9 | 0.4 | 555.27 | |
| #33 | 54 | 54,499 | 221.1 | 0.5 | 486.62 | |
| #34 | 30 | 30,927 | 122.9 | 0.3 | 476.40 | |
| #35 | 67 | 79,446 | 274.4 | 0.7 | 414.18 | |
| #36 | 75 | 92,643 | 307.1 | 0.8 | 397.59 | |
| #37 | 255 | 327,184 | 1044.3 | 2.7 | 382.77 | |
| #38 | 180 | 240,360 | 737.1 | 2.0 | 367.79 | |
| #39 | 378 | 546,388 | 1548.0 | 4.6 | 339.76 | |
| #40 | 95 | 141,089 | 389.0 | 1.2 | 330.69 | |
| #41 | 85 | 137,184 | 348.1 | 1.1 | 304.30 | |
| #42 | 32 | 51,790 | 131.0 | 0.4 | 303.45 | |
| #43 | 40 | 65,197 | 163.8 | 0.5 | 301.31 | |
| #44 | 35 | 57,938 | 143.3 | 0.5 | 296.68 | |
| #45 | 68 | 122,012 | 278.5 | 1.0 | 273.71 | |
| #46 | 84 | 152,764 | 344.0 | 1.3 | 270.05 | |
| #47 | 135 | 247,134 | 552.9 | 2.1 | 268.28 | |
| #48 | 45 | 88,857 | 184.3 | 0.7 | 248.72 | |
| #49 | 73 | 159,967 | 299.0 | 1.3 | 224.12 | |
| #50 | 66 | 148,007 | 270.3 | 1.2 | 219.00 |