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Written by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 on 2025-01-21 at 14:51

@jesusmargar @johncarlosbaez NSA is the biggest user of Magma, and the biggest employer of mathematicians in USA. Magma has the best availabile tools, in number theory and in group theory, for the kind of cryptography-related maths they need.

William Stein failed to get any grant money for SageMath from Simons, despite - or I suppose because of - being in position to develop open-source alternatives to Magma.

https://wstein.org/grants/

In an article I can't find any more he records his interactions with Simons Foundation. It's an interesting read.

EDIT: @jesusmargar kindly pointed at the link I wasn't finding:

https://sagemath.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-simons-foundation-and-open-source.html

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