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Re:Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap by seanlinmt on Monday May 20, 2013 @11:21AM (#5738114)
Wondering if this impacts the security of public key encryption.
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Re:Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap by JackGibbs on Monday May 20, 2013 @09:30PM (#5741363)
As part of properly generating RSA keys there are restrictions as to how close together the two primes numbers chosen can be. So no, twin primes bear no relevance to the problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(algorithm)#Faulty_key_gene...

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