First off: there's a trope out there that cryptography is for geniuses only. That you have to be one of the smartest people in the universe. That you have to be amazing at math. Anything less than that and you should steer clear. This is GARBAGE NONSENSE.
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Secure end-to-end cryptography is becoming table-stakes. Everything needs it, everywhere. How many other fields can you say that about?
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Some closer stories from my personal experience: at Amazon we hire a lot of people from college into a general-purpose SDE1 role. We've had many such people join one of our crypto-focused teams and absolutely succeed.
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If you go through the commits of s2n, you'll find a bunch! And they are absolute *experts* now. It's amazing to watch them dissect things. This stuff is totally doable. It's not magic, forbidden knowledge only for the special few. It's for US!
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My own story is littered with being garbage at math. I was a C student in high-school. Same when we did math at university. But getting into Cryptography really changed that. It unlocked a lot of the "why" of math for me, it gave it all a sudden purpose that was super motivating.
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... I ended up *teaching* university level math, and I still teach a bit today. I still make mistakes, my numeracy isn't great, and I'm not going to be a mathematician any time soon, but it's gratifying to at least be competent. Thanks to Cryptography!
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Final tweet: Don't be discouraged by the intimidating appearance, find a team and spend a few hours a week on it, and get stuck in. If you do it now, it's really really good timing, and you can make LOTS of money. Also: we're hiring.
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