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Re: Maths holy grail could bring disaster for internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Tue Sep 7 15:27:03 2004
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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:29:49 -0500
From: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
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To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net
On Sep 6, 2004, at 21:52, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
> But the proof should give us more understanding of how the
> primes work, and therefore the proof might be translated into something
> that might produce this prime spectrometer. If it does, it will bring
> the
> whole of e-commerce to its knees, overnight. So there are very big
> implications."
This would be a good thing. Because to rebuild the infrastructure
based on symmetric crypto would bring the trusted third party
(currently the CA) out of the shadows and into the light.
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