Possible Crypto Breakthrough?

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Stephen D. Poe" <sdpoe () nautilussolutions com>
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Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 21:13:00 -0600
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Possible Crypto Breakthrough?

Dave - 

If this can be turned into algorithms by either hackers and/or
intelligence agencies we would have to rewrite the rules for crypto
(mostly related to key lengths), including commercial crypto, again.

Consumer version:
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Primed to go
Mar 27th 2003, from The Economist print edition

Mathematicians are discussing ways to make code-breaking easier

MATHEMATICS is often desperately abstract. Yet it has a great deal to
say about the world, from bombs and bridges to cars and codes. Keeping
things secret is vital not only to spies, but to anybody who uses a
computer or a credit card. The codes employed are all based on numbers,
so understanding the science of numbers, known as number theory, is
fundamental to the making and breaking of codes. That is why a workshop
on number theory organised in Palo Alto by the American Institute of
Mathematics was not quite as esoteric as it sounds.
For rest, see:
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1666547

Technical version:
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Small gaps between consecutive primes
Recent work of D. Goldston and C. Yildirim

What are the shortest intervals between consecutive prime numbers?...
For rest, see: http://www.aimath.org/goldston_tech/


Thanks,
Stephen
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