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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- Subject: Re: Cryptography and P=NP
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 14:52:03 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.110945.19939@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <PHR.92Nov15203840@napa.telebit.com>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
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- In article <PHR.92Nov15203840@napa.telebit.com>, phr@telebit (Paul Rubin) writes:
- >It is true that if P=NP then all cryptography everywhere (not just RSA)
- >is dead;
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- Why? Assuming you mean public-key, the question of whether there
- exist one-way functions is not dependent on P!=NP, right?
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- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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