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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] h
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:37:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080627003725.158f8f25@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080626224734.GA30511@marvin.heimnetz.local>

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On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:47:34 +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote:

> If the NSA had a sufficient algorithm, that is capable of 
> reducing the time that much, they should also be able to prove P=NP. 
> This is worth 1.000.000$ iirc and somehow you should get a Nobel Prize 
> for it.

I'm sure the NSA would be happy to forego the prize and keep quiet about
being able to break a secure cipher. Just like our GCHQ came up with
public key cryptography several years before Rivest, Shamir and Adleman
published RSA but kept it secret for over 30 years.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If I save time, when do I get it back?

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-26 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-25  2:20 [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers Chris Walters
2008-06-25  5:43 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-06-25 13:20 ` Daniel Iliev
2008-06-25 15:14   ` Chris Walters
2008-06-25 18:51     ` Sebastian Wiesner
2008-06-25 20:25       ` Chris Walters
2008-06-25 21:24         ` Sebastian Wiesner
2008-06-25 21:53           ` Jason Rivard
2008-06-25 22:10             ` Sebastian Wiesner
2008-06-26  2:22               ` [gentoo-user] My last words on cryptology and cryptography Chris Walters
2008-06-26  8:54                 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-06-26 18:35                   ` kashani
2008-06-26 21:52                     ` Steven Lembark
2008-06-27  0:06                       ` kashani
2008-06-27 13:04                       ` Sebastian Wiesner
2008-06-26 20:14                   ` Sebastian Wiesner
2008-06-26 20:39                     ` Alan McKinnon
2008-06-26 22:10                       ` [gentoo-user] h Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-06-26 22:47                         ` Sebastian Günther
2008-06-26 23:37                           ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2008-06-27  9:44                             ` Stroller
2008-06-27 10:08                               ` Neil Bothwick
2008-06-27 13:48                                 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-06-27 22:00                                   ` Chris Walters
2008-06-27 20:26                                 ` Daniel Iliev
2008-06-27  0:16                           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-06-27  0:28                           ` kashani
2008-06-27  8:51                             ` Alan McKinnon
2008-06-27  8:59                               ` Neil Bothwick
2008-06-27 13:21                             ` Sebastian Wiesner
2008-06-27  8:42                         ` Alan McKinnon

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