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Re:Mills' constant by czinck on Sunday February 15, 2015 @08:05PM (#9054834)
Is there any point to generating primes that large? I thought one of the reasons to prefer ECC was because it uses a much smaller key than RSA.
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Re:Mills' constant by Someone on Monday February 16, 2015 @06:41PM (#9059770)
A) A publication.

B) Eternal fame.

C) Money. See https://www.eff.org/awards/coop

And, most importantly, it may advance mathematics.

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