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February 16, 2012 02:42 pm PST

Prime Suspect, or Random Acts of Keyness

The foundation of Web security rests on the notion that two very large prime numbers, numbers divisible only by themselves and 1, once multiplied together are irreducibly difficult to tease back apart. Researchers have discovered, in some cases, that a lack of entropya lack of disorder in the distribution of prime numbersmeans by analogy that [...]


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