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svat • today at 4:12 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

Incidentally, Ryan Williams says (https://x.com/rrwilliams/status/2114891838377320784):

> In fact, one of the first things I wanted OpenAI to check is that no existing cryptosystems are compromised by the result. Apparently they are safe...

so if you trust his trust of OpenAI, then this has no (immediately obvious) bearing on cryptosystems for now.


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luma • today at 10:28 AM

Somehow, their wide range of results touch every single area of math except anything touching cryptography. I think it's fair to expect that three letter agencies are given the ability to veto the publication of certain discoveries.

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Animats • today at 4:26 AM

Not by this result. But it opens up a new area of problems to hammer on that might get somewhere.

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