Sneakers

Also this movie from 1992 was in the previous math in movie collection. Here again a cut. First the cryptology lecture, then the scrabble scene demonstrating afterwards the code breaking. At the time, when that movie came out, I was still in Switzerland and had to serve also yearly in the Swiss army. I was in the crypto group and we had learned and implemented factorization algorithms, some others did number field stuff, LLL lattice methods or elliptic curves. I had at that time been programming together with Beat Scherer a student of Ernst Specker and Hans Läuchli. Among other things, we completely implemented from scratch some integer factorization algorithms like Morrison-Brillard). Cryptology is a fascinating topic. Unfortunately, we could not take home our code (we programmed in Pascal using an in-house developed large integer library) and even before going home, had to burn notes. Imagine what would have happened if a soldier would have found the Artin map trick in the number field method which is mentioned in that Sneakers movie ... As the second clip shows, the world would not be the same.

MOV, Ogg Webm. IMDb link

MOV, Ogg Webm. IMDb link

Oliver Knill, Posted October 19, 2020,