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Gosh it was early in the morning and somehow I was thinking in terms of factoring prime numbers when I added the security point. But consider cryptography as an application of number theory and compatibility theory.

Interestingly, if there are cryptography alternatives that can still be relied upon if factoring primes is easy, but the same does not hold if P = NP in a practical sense, then that’s further support for the primary point that learning more about prime numbers would not reset the foundation of number theory.