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Estragon on Feb 23, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP

Yay! Since we know markets are efficient, this long-standing computer-science conjecture has been resolved! Now we can break crypto systems by simply setting up an appropriate marketplace!

stcredzero on Feb 23, 2010 [–]

Isn't this what academic crypto is supposed to be? Also the NIST contests for crypto standards are also like this.

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