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- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Cryptography and P=NP
- In-Reply-To: unruh@physics.ubc.ca's message of 16 Nov 1992 04:52:56 GMT
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- Date: 15 Nov 92 21:52:02
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- Factoring is in both NP and co-NP; unless there's been some stunning
- recent developments, nobody knows if factoring is NP-hard. So
- even if P!=NP, factoring might be in P. Most theorists think
- P!=NP, but some very sharp mathematicians think factoring is in P.
- I don't understand the nature of the evidence. But RSA might
- indeed be in worse trouble than cryptography in general.
-
- On the other hand, I've heard that serious crypto spooks mostly
- laugh at all public key systems, other than RSA with very large
- keys (500 digit primes and 1000 digit modulus--that's -decimal- digits).
- Crypto schemes based on NPC problems have been broken.
-
- Remember that polynomial could be x^(10^10), in which case we still
- don't have much to worry about.
-
- Depends on the model of computation that you use.
-