CDR: Minesweeper and defeating modern encryption technology

Carskadden, Rush carskar at netsolve.net
Wed Nov 1 15:21:58 PST 2000


http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/daily/11/01/minesweeper.html

from the article:
"Proving the conjecture false would mean that modern encryption technology,
the foundation of electronic commerce, would be open to easy attack."

Isn't that a little general? Possibly jumping to some hasty conclusions
about P versus NP as well?

ok,
Rush
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