Friday, April 01, 2005
JSH: It's over
The surrogate factoring theorem allows you to factor one number by factoring another in a direct connection.
That theorem allows people who believe it's true to crack RSA, crack encryption and basically wreak havoc at will upon the world.
There's an odd situation here though, as mathematicians as a body are incapable of accepting that truth, so they will fight that truth, and help hackers and others who exploit it.
They will fight any suggestion that RSA is broken, and will explain away cases that indicate it is.
The end result of all of this will be a complete collapse of the US economy, which will, oddly enough, lead to an economic boom for the rest of the world.
It's a surgical operation. The precision of it is unfathomable.
At the end of the process, the world will be turned upside down, with the US on the bottom, with US scientists, engineers and mathematicians at the bottom of the heap, while the rest of the world will experience a renaissance.
As we speak, puzzled hackers around the world are easily breaking into computer systems relying on RSA encryption—puzzled that no one is reacting, no headlines, no trumpeting around the world that RSA is broken.
My message to them is—the US is brain dead. George W. Bush is a symptom of a deeper problem, and the country is basically no longer thinking.
To me it is a time of deep sadness, as my country had been my life, my inheritance, my hope for the future, a place that to me represented the best and the worst, but most importantly hope.
My mathematical experiences have shown me that truth has left here, and must now go to other shores for the hope of the future.
I still cannot quite believe it. The pain of it is immense, but I refuse to give up. What America represented can live on, despite the loss.
It must live on.
The future is tomorrow, and not even a day.
And that future is bright.
That theorem allows people who believe it's true to crack RSA, crack encryption and basically wreak havoc at will upon the world.
There's an odd situation here though, as mathematicians as a body are incapable of accepting that truth, so they will fight that truth, and help hackers and others who exploit it.
They will fight any suggestion that RSA is broken, and will explain away cases that indicate it is.
The end result of all of this will be a complete collapse of the US economy, which will, oddly enough, lead to an economic boom for the rest of the world.
It's a surgical operation. The precision of it is unfathomable.
At the end of the process, the world will be turned upside down, with the US on the bottom, with US scientists, engineers and mathematicians at the bottom of the heap, while the rest of the world will experience a renaissance.
As we speak, puzzled hackers around the world are easily breaking into computer systems relying on RSA encryption—puzzled that no one is reacting, no headlines, no trumpeting around the world that RSA is broken.
My message to them is—the US is brain dead. George W. Bush is a symptom of a deeper problem, and the country is basically no longer thinking.
To me it is a time of deep sadness, as my country had been my life, my inheritance, my hope for the future, a place that to me represented the best and the worst, but most importantly hope.
My mathematical experiences have shown me that truth has left here, and must now go to other shores for the hope of the future.
I still cannot quite believe it. The pain of it is immense, but I refuse to give up. What America represented can live on, despite the loss.
It must live on.
The future is tomorrow, and not even a day.
And that future is bright.
# posted by James Harris @ 11:45 
