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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,sci.math
Subject: Unproven results
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Date: 1 Apr 88 22:48:07 GMT
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In article <11440@duke.cs.duke.edu> srt@duke.UUCP (Stephen R. Tate) writes:
>Lastly, I hope that if you're doing work using unproven hypotheses
>(even something as plausable as the RH) that you're not working on
>something critical...

Well, there's a lot of rather critical stuff being done in cryptology on the
assumption that P != NP.  (Actually, it's worse than that, since factoring
is not known to be NP complete.)
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