Information Security News: Maths Prize Could Revolutionise Encryption

[Berislav Kucan BHZ <bhz () NET-SECURITY ORG>]

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/20/ns-15601.html

Entrants must tackle some of the world's most perplexing unsolved
mathematical problems for £3.6m prize

A £3.6m mathematics competition announced Wednesday could spark a
revolution in computer security and online privacy experts believe.

The competition is sponsored by the Clay Mathematics Institute in the US
and was revealed at the Millennium Mathematics Conference in France.
Entrants must tackle some of the world's most perplexing unsolved
mathematical problems including the Reimann Hypothesis.

Proving this problem -- a dizzyingly complicated theory involving the
behaviour of prime numbers -- would improve the process of communicating
encrypted information and therefore help develop the science of computer
security and privacy.

Details of all the problems and rules for entry can be found at the
Institute's homepage : http://www.claymath.org/prize_problems/index.htm


Berislav Kucan
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