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Welcome to the science podcast for January 31st, 2014.

I'm Sarah Crespi.

In this week's show, we hear about whether we should worry more about quantum decryption in the past or in the future,

the role of salt as a micronutrient and a constraint on the carbon cycle, and David Grimm is here with stories from our daily news site. Support for the science podcast is provided by

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Since the era of the internet began, cryptography has gone from a game of spy versus spy to one of math versus

computers. And as computers get more powerful, the problems they must solve to break encryption

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