the beauty of prime numbers in cryptography

This animation was made in collaboration with Michael Dunworth. We had been exploring prime number visualizations in the context of cryptography, and decided to turn it into a video.

This video is not intended to be used as a complete technical tutorial on primes in cryptosystems. Rather, it is an impressionistic and highly-visual exploration of some basic mathematical principles behind crypto, such as prime factorization, modular arithmetic, and exponentiation.

As of April 2022, work is still ongoing, and we hope to come up with some cool new animations with prime number patterns. We may not make any important discoveries or useful designs, but we are dedicated to making these concepts visually stimulating, and we hope it will be interesting to non-technical people. The subject of digital security is becoming increasingly important in daily life. We figure having a little fun with it and offering up some visual playthings can't hurt.

[stevelin]

This feels like a table-of-contents for a 40 minute video.

[Andrew-wpbz]

Don’t know how or why this got shoved in my feed, but excellent video!

[TactfulWaggle]

This was super interesting, the way it's presented is highly professional and easy to understand, the visuals and animations are really good.

I thought i was watching something from a big channel with millions of views, to my surprise i scrolled down to see comments i see only 5 and only 300 views, you deserve way more!

[DemPilafian]

*Luck cryptography illustration:* Ask someone what are two whole numbers greater than 1 that multiplied together equal 91. After a few moments, apologize for asking a tricky question and then ask what is the unluckiest number 13 times the luckiest number 7?

[danny_racho]

Nice video. But it would have been nice to explain at least on key decrypting method instead of saying 10 times "cryptography is complex"

[goodguyholmes]

Fascinating! I was really surprised to see only 700-800 views after watching. Great orating as well, had me chuckle with "big, honking primes"

[giggabiite]

This was really incredible to watch, though I had to back up a few times to make sure I knew what was happening. Makes me want to learn more about the mathematics behind cryptography! (though I'm also now a little scared of it lol)

[Tondadrd]

I could follow, except for elliptic cryptography, as I was studying this stuff. Quite a niche audience. Nice vid!

[daddyoftheabyss]

amazing. just amazing. as a person that always liked math, but never studied it deeper than high-school level, I find this aesthetically pleasing and creatively inspiring and rekindles my love for maths. keep up the great work!

[wrblxyz]

Thanks you for this! It’s both informative and inspiring ❤

[NicholasPellegrino]

Wayyy too shallow. Didn't teach anything, just gave another oversimplified explanation.