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by red_trumpet
681 days ago
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I don't see how proving the Riemann Hypothesis would help cracking RSA? If it helps, couldn't you just assume it is true and start cracking RSA today? If you ever hit a point where it doesn't work then BOOOM: Riemann Hypothesis disproven! |
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Most mathematicians believe RH is true, and generally when doing industrial number theory people operate under the assumption that RH is indeed true and so if they need to use X to justify something and there is a theorem of the form "if RH is true then X" they use X.
Thus a proof of RH is not a problem. It just confirms that what people applying number theory already assumed was correct.
A disproof means that those X's might not be true and their use would need to be reassessed.