Finite Fields in Cryptography: Why and How

Learn about a practical motivation for using finite fields in cryptography, the boring definition, a slightly more fun example with monsters, and how to create fields out of some sets of integers. Links mentioned in the video: Learn more about floating points: https://floating-point-gui.de Learn more about the etymology of words in mathematics: http://jeff560.tripod.com/f.html Learn more about proving that groups of prime order are fields: https://web.stanford.edu/~aaronlan/assets/finite-fields.pdf Listen to a mathematically correct proof of love: https://youtu.be/BipvGD-LCjU