Thank you for reviewing and sharing your thoughts.

Yes, it is indeed surprising — and that’s partly why I built that twist into the story. After the 1990s, as computer adoption remained somewhat nascent in Asia, the specialist research groups and sometimes sponsored by the state activities were not necessarily decades behind civil technology.

The idea was to show how a groundbreaking you know algorithm could have been quietly developed, hidden from the public, and only revealed much later through the efforts of determined individuals like Adeel, Sara, & Bilal.