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One field that relies on unproven but assumed true mathematical conjectures is cryptography. Provably secure crypto usually assumes that P != NP (it also incorp
by namlede 11y ago
One field that relies on unproven but assumed true mathematical conjectures is cryptography. Provably secure crypto usually assumes that P != NP (it also incorporates further assumptions such as the intractability of integer factorization).