Math Discovery Rattles Net Security

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Maybe a bit overplayed. Djf

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From: Jim Brenton <brentonj () swbell net>
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Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 04:34:14 -0600
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Math Discovery Rattles Net Security

Dave - IP readers may be interested in this item from MSNBC.

Jim Brenton

http://www.msnbc.com/news/830300.asp?0pu=70&cp1=1

Nov. 4 - Will Manindra Agrawal bring about the end of the Internet as
we know it? The question is not as ridiculous as it was just two
months ago. Prof. Agrawal is a 36-year old theoretical computer
scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India. In
August, he solved a problem that had eluded millennia of
mathematicians: developing a method to determine with complete
certainty if a number is prime.




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