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In fact, they have applications to something as ubiquitous and mundane as making a purchase online. Every time you enter your credit card number on the Internet, prime numbers spring into action.
A new algorithm brings together the advantages of randomness and deterministic processes to reliably construct large prime numbers.
Prime numbers are fundamental to the most common type of encryption used today: the RSA algorithm. The RSA algorithm was named after the three mathematicians who first publicly unveiled it in 1977.
Therefore, if an 'algorithm that enables prime factorization of a huge number of digits' is developed, its safety will be shaken.
A million-dollar puzzle relating to prime numbers could be tackled using only a mid-sized quantum computer. There is a race to find ever bigger primes , but no way to predict when the next one ...