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Re: Maths holy grail could bring disaster for internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victor Duchovni)
Tue Sep 7 16:04:34 2004
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:37:53 -0400
From: Victor Duchovni <Victor.Duchovni@MorganStanley.com>
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On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:29:49AM -0500, Matt Crawford wrote:
>
> 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.
>
RSA is useful for more than X.509... and of course the reporter is prone
to flights of fancy...
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