Cryptography and the job market
Hello! I sincerely hope I dont break rule 4 with this post. Cryptography is by far the most fascinating thing I have found in life so far, and it feels extremely important. I am still learning how to read and write proofs, and I am still self learning c and lean and mathlib, so I am a total beginner, please excuse my ignorance of obvious things.
I am trying to understand if jobs exist, outside of NIST. I am from an obscure east Euro country and have never met a professional cryptographer, and all mathematicians I know just teach, in highschools. If OpenSSL (and similar libs) exists already, and they already implement aes, rsa, sha or whatever else is needed, would a company even need a cryptography specialist to implement it?