Illegal Prime Numbers
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Illegal Prime Numbers
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Re: Illegal Prime Numbers
#2I understand that one number can be the binary equivalent of a protected source code, but I don't understand why the fact that it is a prime number is important.
Re: Illegal Prime Numbers
#3I understand that one number can be the binary equivalent of a protected source code, but I don't understand why the fact that it is a prime number is important.
If it was composite then at least you could factor it into (hopefully) legal numbers and distribute those. :P
No, jokes aside I don’t know either.
Re: Illegal Prime Numbers
#4I understand that one number can be the binary equivalent of a protected source code, but I don't understand why the fact that it is a prime number is important.
I Missread it
"...worthy of being published on the lists of the highest prime numbers.[1] In a way, by having this number independently published for a completely unrelated reason to the DeCSS code, he had been able to evade legal responsibility for the original software."
Re: Illegal Prime Numbers
#5What's interesting in this case is that I may know that an entity has such a number in possession. By encrypting sensitive IP with that number, do I force that entity to break the law?
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#6Does the guy actualy had to test many version of the code by adding some useless instruction only to change the binary final number ? like mining a bitcoin
Re: Illegal Prime Numbers
#7This is pretending that bits don’t have color¹. In one way they don’t, but in another they do.
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#8This is pretending that bits don’t have color¹. In one way they don’t, but in another they do. 1. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
How would the concept of colour be used practically in this case? Am I allowed to mention the prime number or am I not?
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#9This is pretending that bits don’t have color¹. In one way they don’t, but in another they do. 1. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
How would the concept of colour be used practically in this case? Am I allowed to mention the prime number or am I not?
It depends of the color of the number. If the color is that of a simple prime number, which you mention purely for its characteristics as a number, then you would theoretically be allowed. Otherwise not.
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#10This rabbithole led me to http://fatphil.org/maths/illegal2.html - non-trivial executable primenumbers are amazing.