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vilgax
on Feb 5, 2013
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48th Mersenne prime found
It's used in field of cryptography.
http://www.claymath.org/posters/primes/
http://primes.utm.edu/notes/faq/why.html
rorrr
on Feb 5, 2013
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Not Mersenne primes though. There are only a few of them, and it would be trivial to check if any of them are used as primes. The whole point of encryption schemes that use prime numbers is that the attacker
doesn't
know which primes are used.
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