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RH ≠ NP

Posted by richardelwes on July 5, 2008
Posted in: Crankishness, Maths, Nonsense.

Maybe it’s lucky Li’s proof of the Riemann Hypothesis didn’t work out, since…

“…if a proof is found, it has the potential to lead to the undermining of current encryption methods, which depend on the difficulty of factoring large prime numbers.”

Current encryption methods are pretty crap, aren’t they?

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