Re: JSH: What if I succeed?

On Aug 26, 5:41 pm, JSH <jst...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For years I've been talking about using the factoring problem to force
acceptance of my other mathematical research as I figured that if I
demonstrate my problem solving ability with a practical math problem
away from "pure math" then I can get people to pay attention to my
other decried research.

My take on responses from this newsgroup at least has been a
contemptuous dismissal of any possibility of my success.

But what if I succeed?

The scary part to me is not the world's markets but the possibility
that the academic math world IS as dumb as I've feared as if I just
trot out a solution that shows that factoring is a trivially easy
problem, and do it with ideas I've talked out over a year, how can it
be smart?

Especially if it has spent the last five years ignoring my proof of
FLT and my prime counting function along with other research?

And, um, can I ethically present a stunningly simple proof of how to
make my latest "surrogate factoring" approach work at a time like this
when the world's financial markets are already on edge?

But where can I go with the research?

I've already contacted the NSA in the past when I was wrong, and I've
bugged cryptology people over the years, so how do I go to anyone now?

But more importantly, how can it be so trivial?

How could R, S and A present something so pathetically easy to solve
to the world as a security system, and manage to convince people?

Should I hide math for the good of financial markets to protect a math
culture that seems to be stupid on a scale hard to comprehend about
even the most basic mathematics?

Or let fly? I think I have no choice but to simply present the
research and let the chips fall where they may because the situation
is so unprecedented that there is no rulebook.

There simply is no right answer.

James Harris

What if evil aliens are about to invade and the only way to put them
off is to run naked around the streets? It would be pretty
irresponsible of us not to run around naked wouldn't it? Especially
since nobody has yet proved that naked-street-running-human-fearing
aliens AREN'T about to invade.

We could live our lives in the way you suggest, wondering about every
ridiculously unlikely 'what if?', or we could make the practical
assumption that a moron who's proved nothing in 12 years is so
exceedingly unlikely to 'solve factoring' that it's not worth worrying
about. In fact for that matter, even if you were a genius with 12
years of amazing discoveries, what would be the point in worrying
about it anyway? There's nothing I can do to change whether or not
someone 'solves factoring', least of all posting on usenet. Nobody is
trying to stop you - even on here everyone is positively encouraging
you to factor a big number. Go for it. But it's all bluff; you can't,
because you have nothing. So you keep pretending, hoping someone will
buy your ridiculous, 'oh, I didn't go through with it because I'm
worried about the markets' bull***. If you care about the world, then
show us that RSA is insecure by factoring a big number, then we can
adjust accordingly ( I take it you're aware that there are plenty
other encryption schemes? ).


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