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- From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt)
- Subject: Re: Cryptography and P=NP
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.152501.22172@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1992Nov15.110945.19939@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <PHR.92Nov15203840@napa.telebit.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:25:01 GMT
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- In article <PHR.92Nov15203840@napa.telebit.com> phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
- >It is true that if P=NP then all cryptography everywhere (not just RSA)
- >is dead; but at this point I wouldn't take Swart's claims seriously
- >without seeing some consensus among complexity efforts that unlike
- >his previous attempts, his latest effort is free of bugs.
-
- To rephrase Herman Rubin's point: an O(n^1000) algorithm for an NP-hard
- problem will show P=NP without compromising cryptography in the
- slightest.
- --
- Vaughan Pratt A fallacy is worth a thousand steps.
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