In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/02/99
at 01:04 PM, "Glenn Maitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Dear everyone,
> I may have missed this, but was there any final judgment on the Meganet
>Corp. claim that they had a "deterministic and polynomial-time" prime
>test? There were some discussions on the list early this year when they
>first made their claim. But I don't recall reading about any resolution.
>Did this just fade away? Are they still holding to their claim? And if
>they are, does it stand up to examination (if they are revealing enough
>for examination)?
These guys are snake-oil vendors. I don't know what type of prime test
they are claiming to have or not have but from my exposure to their crypto
claims I wouldn't trust anything from them without proof.
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