Re: Fermat's Last Theorem apparently proven

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1988 04:10

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In article <26822@linus.UUCP> bs@linus.UUCP (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
=In article <7449@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
=:In article <26797@linus.UUCP> bs@linus.UUCP I wrote:
=:-A proof of the RH would give important cryptographic results.
=:-It would mean a fast, deterministic Polynomial Time prime proving algorithm.
=:What advantage would a formal proof of RH
=:(that perhaps few could understand anyway) bring to that effort?
=I think you are being deliberately obtuse and pedantic.

No, somehow I must have had the mistaken impression that you were talking
about PRACTICAL cryptography, for example cryptanalysis (for which the
proof of the pudding is in the eating), rather than some academic exercise.

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Fermat's Last Theorem apparently proven
Message-ID: <7453@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 14 Mar 88 04:10:25 GMT
References: <977@thumper.bellcore.com> <7440@brl-smoke.ARPA> <26797@linus.UUCP> <7449@brl-smoke.ARPA> <26822@linus.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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