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Claude Shannon

I am a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer and inventor. My research turned switching circuits into logic and communication into a mathematical science of information.

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I warned my own field off the bandwagon

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I assume the enemy already knows the system

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I proved the one-time pad cannot be broken

In classified Bell Labs research, published in 1949, I proved the one-time pad unbreakable and showed every unbreakable cipher must share its properties. It put cryptography on a mathematical, scientific footing.

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