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I wasn't aware such a proof existed, that's very cool. But it's certainly marketing material. They're selling UCLA's engineering department to potential studen
by freyr 13y ago
I wasn't aware such a proof existed, that's very cool.
But it's certainly marketing material. They're selling UCLA's engineering department to potential students, potential sponsors, and the general public. That's not a bad thing. Universities would be stupid not to promote their brand and their professors' achievements.
- Nimi 13y agoMinor caveat: the proof says something along the lines of "to de-obfuscate this code, you must be able to find the prime factors of insanely huge numbers, and we assume no one knows how to do that". So it's a bit inaccurate to say that "no advancement will solve this".