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Comment by Tainnor

I have no idea how these things are related.

In any case, to my knowledge, no cipher has ever unconditionally been proven secure except the one time pad. We just have a bunch of conditional security proof that are correct if the underlying assumptions (e.g. factoring primes is hard) are correct. Critically, I think all (?) such proofs only work if P != NP, which still remains unproven.

> 1) FLT may have been proven by Wiles

The "may" is misplaced here. Wiles's proof has been extensively reviewed, just because it hasn't been formalised doesn't mean it's wrong.

parent Tainnor 1 year ago

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