What Terence Tao thinks about cryptography

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1. 20 Mar 2026

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

   Their wordsUm 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.

   ↗Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AIyoutube.com 20th of 24 in this recording