All trust is economics

[Mike Rosing]

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