On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 10:06:59 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >Strong encryption can, as a practical matter, ensure the safety of a >message transmitted from computer S to computer T. > Doesn't the imputed strength of most (all?) prevalent encryption schemes depend on their somewhat conjectural N-P Complete character?
Of course, if the five-eyes were to discover either a proof or a refutation of N-P complexity, or an encryption scheme whose strength could be proven independently of N-P, the mathematics would be kept Top Secret as long as possible. (Five-eyes appears to have only a weak notional relationship to Κέρβερος, who presumably had six eyes.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
