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- From: pkk36438@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Polygon)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: What does P=NP mean?
- Message-ID: <BxuDIH.Jvp@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 03:54:16 GMT
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- I am not sure what's really going on and I don't know what P=NP mean; however,
- I tend to suspect that those who claim that the public-key system is over
- watche too many movies like "Sneakers".
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- Solving a problem in polynomial time can still be extremely difficult. Can
- anyone tell me why it is a major threat to the public-key system if P=NP?
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- Peter, UIUC
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