Maths holy grail could bring disaster for internet

[Victor Duchovni]

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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