Maths holy grail could bring disaster for internet

[Ashop]

The Guardian Sept. 7, 2004
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Mathematicians could be on the
verge of solving two separate
million-dollar problems. If Louis de
Branges really has cracked the
Riemann hypothesis, financial
disaster might follow. Suddenly all
cryptic codes could be breakable. No
Internet transaction would be safe,
since they all depend on generating
prime numbers; the Riemann
hypothesis...

**broken link removed**

 

[Johan]

Very interesting to say the least. Gonna be fun to se what kind of cryptations they will find out now. But I dont think there is any imidet danger...


but the poincare conjecture is even more interesting

scientific progres god I love it

 

[C_Horse]

Riemann Hypothesis

Good luck to them on Riemann. Prime numbers are great. Number theory is a bitch.

The worry over internet safety is overblown though. RH can already be demonstrated analytically over finite spaces.

 

[FRKNHUGE]

the cia will wack him lol
frk