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points by svat 3 days ago | 0 comments

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.

[–] luma 2 days ago

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.

[–] tomaskafka 2 days ago

Just like when the Manhattan project could be recognized by all the nuclear scientists stopping publishing.

[–] w4der 2 days ago

Wasn't there a comment a while ago when all major LLM providers went down almost at the same time that it was caused by a sort of virtual "Room 641A" thing?

[–] Animats 3 days ago

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

[–] marcus_holmes 2 days ago

Seeing the panicked state of the PHP ecosystem at the moment, and having worked in the financial system in the past, I dread the thought of what would happen to global banking if a frontier model broke a maths problem that underpins our crypto systems...