Re:“This destroys the RSA cryptosystem”
by hardwaregeek on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @06:01PM
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I've held the theory that if anybody found something like fast prime factoring or a P = NP proof, they'd get assassinated pretty quickly. It'd be in basically every government's interest to get the knowledge, then make sure nobody else has it.
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Travelling Salesman (2012) movie is about exactly this.
I’ve had similar thoughts, but walked them back to “oh, they’d probably keep it to themselves or drop it in the NSA’s amnesty box.”
Re:“This destroys the RSA cryptosystem”
by rrobukef on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @06:20AM
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The first thing I'd do is moving Satoshi's coins with a very suspect transaction.
Re:“This destroys the RSA cryptosystem”
by setpatchaddress on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @07:12PM
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The Trump presidency forever cured me of the last vestiges of the idea that government would be capable of recognizing the importance of something like this and authorizing something like an assassination as a remedy.
Which is mostly a good thing, to be clear.
The American government isn't the only one you have to worry about.
Somebody has been watching a lot of television.