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  1. Oct 2015
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    The Applications of Probability to Cryptography
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    1. davidar 18 Oct 2015
      Nearly all ap­pli­ca­tions of prob­a­bil­ity to cryp­tog­ra­phy de­pend on the fac­tor prin­ci­ple (or Bayes’ The­o­rem).

      This is easily the most interesting sentence in the paper: Turing used Bayesian analysis for code-breaking during WWII.

      Turing Bayes Bayesian probability crypto cryptography
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