Re: All trust is economics

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, John Kozubik wrote:

Great fame would also wait anyone who proved that a significantly faster method _does not_ exist. Not only is this conceivable, but it would move this second scenario much further along your scale of trust towards "1".

I find that a lot of people (not necessarily anyone here) often forget that this possibility still exists as a possible conclusion in public key cryptography.

I don't see how. There's an aweful lot of math that hasn't been discovered yet. So you can't prove a negative simply because you don't know all the possible methods (and never will!) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike