[Cryptography] List of Proven Secure Ciphers / Hashes

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Tue Sep 9 14:08:49 EDT 2014


>responsible for the Mary Celeste (sorry about that), oh, and also P = NP.  See
>you in another billion years".
>
>How does this affect practical usage of PKC in any conceivable way?

Perhaps people expect that if P=NP, there will be a constructive proof
of a polynomial algorithm for an NP complete problem.

If it's a more abstract proof that such an algorithm must exist,
without telling us what it is, I agree that the practical effect will
be nil.

R's,
John


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