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Well I for one freely admit I can't understand a word of it. But I do appreciate the implications if it's true, and look forward to more readable analysis by ot
by Schwolop 13y ago
Well I for one freely admit I can't understand a word of it. But I do appreciate the implications if it's true, and look forward to more readable analysis by others more qualified than myself!
- elwell 13y agoWhat are the implications?
- Schwolop 13y agoAmongst other things, that public key cryptography is crackable in polynomial time, rendering it effectively useless if a generalisable algorithm (such as presented in the paper) is able to convert a non-polynomial time algorithm into a polynomial time one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem#Consequences_of_the_resolution_of_the_problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem#Consequence... has better details than I can give.
- mek 13y agoAmongst other things, Bitcoin mining