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4 Sep 2024 03:20:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: P != NP ?  
From: Darren New
Date: 10 Aug 2010 13:43:50
Message: <4c618fd6$1@news.povray.org>
Kevin Wampler wrote:
> straightforward to construct an encryption method which would be NO-hard 
> to crack, so there must be a reason why this doesn't seem to be done. 

It is. The problem is that you don't want it to be NP-hard for *everyone*.

You only want it NP-hard for people who don't know the key.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    C# - a language whose greatest drawback
    is that its best implementation comes
    from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.


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