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Cryptographer (Cyber Security)

The Hook

Professional secret keeper.

What is it?

They use Number Theory and Prime Numbers to encrypt your credit card data and private messages.

Time Travel (History)

During WWII, math was used to hide troop movements. Today, it protects your WiFi password.

Cheat Code

RSA Encryption relies on the fact that multiplying two huge primes is easy, but factoring the result is impossible.