CDR: Re: Minesweeper and defeating modern encryption technology
Olav
he-who-watches at gmx.de
Fri Nov 3 10:40:51 PST 2000
Perhaps someone could explain this P vs. NP stuff to a normal
not-yet-student?
And, this program, what features are required to prove his theory?
Thanks in advance,
Olav
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> >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?
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