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This could be used to circumvent other (all?) limitations of speech. Just say "look up the nth prime and unzip it" instead of what you can't say... There shoul

• esquivalience 9y ago
  It's not less unlawful just because you express it in a number - just harder to catch. Surely there are easier ways to circumvent?
• dmurray 9y ago
  Calculating the nth prime is hard, but you may be interested in πfs, a system for storing and retrieving your data based only on the digits of pi. https://github.com/philipl/pifs https://github.com/philipl/pifs
• throwaway080383 9y ago
  Expressing n is as hard as expressing the original data.
• klmr 9y ago
  This already exists, it’s called cryptography: for example, you can exchange some prime numbers (key exchange), and then use those to apply a generic mathematical function to the information. You then send the resulting numbers. (In this situation it isn’t the prime numbers themselves which are illegal, it’s the other numbers.) Doesn’t change the legal situation, of course.
  • bambax 9y ago
    No, this is really not similar to cryptography. More like the opposite. Cryptography is about exchanging secrets on an insecure network. This is about legally publishing information you're not allowed to make public. It does change the legal situation because, from the article, it's about > ... the representation of the illegal code in a form that had an intrinsically archivable quality. (...) The primality of a number is a fundamental property of number theory and is therefore not dependent on legal definitions of any particular jurisdiction.