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Oh, man. So many answers. The blockchain of bitcoin is pretty gorgeous, if that counts.

AES is beautiful as well. And I love Huffman encoding. hm, what else. Bloom filters are awesome.

I suspect FFT is beautiful, too, but it surpassed my ability to understand.



Out of curiosity, what do you find beautiful about AES?

I personally think that Speck is pretty cool because of its extreme simplicity, but I can't see anything special about AES.


I'm sorry, I meant to say RSA. My mistake. I find the mathematics of it quite elegant.




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