On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 08:04:45PM +0000, J Adrian Pickering wrote: > Yes. You must file beforehand. You should also secure your data leading up > to the filing also (in case of 'diligence' challenges). Self-archiving a > preprint could be done provided it is encrypted. However, this is not > necessary. File the *hash* of the preprint only. Then, there there is > absolutely NO possibility of disclosure whatsoever.
I see. Well I have found a short proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, and here is its cryptographic hash key: qp2938jap98ejrap38fjawp498fjq4pf8jsfpaj34fp8j4f And if the NSF gives me a grant I will reveal the document that led to this key. I have to agree with Stevan that this is not compatible with the purpose of open scholarly archives. Maybe there should be an archive somewhere of hash keys of good ideas. But not the arXiv or similar. -- /\ Greg Kuperberg (UC Davis) / \ \ / Visit the Math ArXiv Front at http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/ \/ * All the math that's fit to e-print *
