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From ArsTechnica . . .
Alleged "Snake Oil" Crypto Company Sues Over Boos at Black Hat:
Grant's presentation, entitled "Discovery of Quasi-Prime Numbers: What Does this Mean for Encryption," was based on a paper called "Accurate and Infinite Prime Prediction from a Novel Quasi-PrimeAnalytical Methodology." That work was published in March of 2019 through Cornell University's arXiv.org by Grant's co-author Talal Ghannam—a physicist who has self-published a book called The Mystery of Numbers: Revealed through their Digital Root as well as a comic book called The Chronicles of Maroof the Knight: The Byzantine. The paper, a slim five pages, focuses on the use of digital root analysis (a type of calculation that has been used in occult numerology) to rapidly identify prime numbers and a sort of multiplication table for factoring primes.
[...] The Black Hat talk did not go smoothly. People had to be ejected from the room by security because they were heckling and booing Grant.
[...] Cryptographers were extremely skeptical, with some referring to the talk as "snake oil crypto." Even before the event, Mark Carney, a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds, wrote a paper refuting the claims Grant and Ghannam had made in theirs.
Well that could have gone better. Maybe the court trial will be more orderly.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday August 24 2019, @06:53PM (2 children)
Did you read the paper?
I hope not, because I debunked it enough, I hope, such that you shouldn't.
If you did - you're a fucking idiot, because you didn't understand it (sub-retard, very bad class to fall into)
If you didn't - you're a fucking idiot, because you're talking out of your arse.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @07:10PM
well. at least you didn't call me a masturbating idiot. I may have sued.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @11:30PM
I shouldn't read a paper because some idiot on the internet said he already debunked it? Ha! I think now I just have to read it!