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Originally Posted by Anonymouse

[FONT=Arial](OT for a bit) Don't worry about it at all, because even if you have a supercomputer, you're not going to break public-key encryption this side of the Sun going nova, at least not until someone proves the Riemann Hypothesis* - and trust me, that ain't gonna happen any time soon because no-one on this planet has the slightest idea as to how to prove it, or even disprove it (it's believed to be true, and mathematicians are praying to God that it is true, because a number of major theorems are based on the assumption that it is!). They can spend as much dosh on it as they like, and waste years of computer time (that's computer-years, not man-years) - the difficulty in breaking encryption is [I]mathematically fundamental.

You mean like this:

A proof of the Riemann hypothesis
http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.0090

Funny how this came up, I'd never heard of the Riemann hypothesis before.