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Old 24th May 2009
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Originally Posted by pik View Post

I have read the bioctl manpage and noted that:
Entire filed of cryptography is based on P=PN hypothesis. The only problem
with that is that P=PN has never been proved. It is just a hypothesis which might turn to be false

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_%3D_NP_problem

The above is a typical example of the difference between mathematics
and applied science. In applied science and engineering things need to work
just well enough. In mathematics the truth is absolute. It is either true or
false.
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