Re: Perplexing proof

2004-09-11 Thread Sarad AV
--- Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone explain how finding regularity in the distribution of primes would affect any modexp() system? Suppose that you have a function F(i) which gives you the i-th prime. Since the PK systems (eg RSA, DH) use *randomness* to

Perplexing proof

2004-09-10 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.vnunet.com/print/1157970 Perplexing proof E-commerce is only one mathematical breakthrough away from disaster Robert Valpuesta, IT Week 09 Sep 2004 The fact that even experts often do not fully understand how IT systems work was underlined by recent reports that the Riemann

Re: Perplexing proof

2004-09-10 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 08:23 AM 9/10/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://www.vnunet.com/print/1157970 Perplexing proof E-commerce is only one mathematical breakthrough away from disaster Robert Valpuesta, IT Week 09 Sep 2004 The fact that even experts often do not fully understand how IT systems work

Re: Perplexing proof

2004-09-10 Thread R. A. Hettinga
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