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If the Riemann hypothesis turned out to be false, prime-based cryptography would be abandoned very quickly, because one unknown pattern implies more.

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cryptography Cryptographic construction and its limits -- obfuscation, permutations, and what a scheme is actually proved to withstand.

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  1. Terence Tao

    Mathematician at UCLA, Fields Medal 2006

    Um and uh I think we would very rapidly abandon any cryptography based on the primes because if there was a one pattern that we didn't know about there's probably more.

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