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Anonymous Tue Jan 15 12:02:30 2013 No.5441915 [Reply] [Original]

Hey chaps, I am currently a 1st year doing a Bsc in Mathematics at Sheffield university (Not best of the best but still Russel Group) and I aspire to be a cryptographer as my career. The only issue is I don't know where to start. I know GCHQ is the big one to aim for (Britfag here). What would you recommend I do, internship, volunteering wise etc. to make myself stand outside of the crowd? Should I go for a lower maths based job and work my way up the career ladder? Should I complete a masters in mathematics, or is it not unnecessary? Would they laugh if I put on my CV that I read books on cryptography in my spare time (in the sense it doesn't prove anything)? Any help would be great, thank you.

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