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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next prev parent 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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