<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 15, 2018, at 8:17 PM, Peter Gutmann <<a href="mailto:pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz" class="">pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Aram Perez <<a href="mailto:aramperez@mac.com" class="">aramperez@mac.com</a>> writes:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">A professor who created an algorithm that may overturn an orthodoxy of<br class="">computer science has the field’s experts excited. The rest of the story:<br class=""><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/543511/claimed-breakthrough-slays-classic-computing-problem-encryption-could-be-next/" class="">https://www.technologyreview.com/s/543511/claimed-breakthrough-slays-classic-computing-problem-encryption-could-be-next/</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Let's wait for the third lecture, the publication of his paper(s), and the six<br class="">to twelve months it usually takes for someone to either find the flaw in the<br class="">proof or show that it can't be mapped onto the factoring problem in a manner<br class="">more efficient than solving the factoring problem directly.<br class=""><br class="">Peter.<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">The cryptography mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:cryptography@metzdowd.com" class="">cryptography@metzdowd.com</a><br class="">http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/graph-isomorphism-vanquished-again-20170114/" class="">https://www.quantamagazine.org/graph-isomorphism-vanquished-again-20170114/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">He fixed an error a year ago but it’s still not certain. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve seen people give rump session talks at IACR conferences that break talks to be presented the next day.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tamzen</div></body></html>