Illegal Numbers - Numberphile
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JAMES GRIME: Well, we're going to talk about illegal numbers. And when I heard that there were these things, illegal numbers, that some numbers were illegal, I was shocked and surprised as well. Today, in the modern world, numbers are used as keys to encrypt secret information. They're used to encrypt or protect DVDs as well, so that you can't illegally copy films off a DVD. You need to protect those keys. So if you distribute those secret keys, those secret numbers, this is a real problem. And some people are claiming that it would be illegal to distribute those numbers. And so it's the number itself that becomes illegal. And there are some other problems as well because you can consider a digital photograph or a computer pro...
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JAMES GRIME: Well, we're going to talk about illegal numbers. And when I heard that there were these things, illegal numbers, that some numbers were illegal, I was shocked and surprised as well. Today, in the modern world, numbers are used as keys to encrypt secret information. They're used to encrypt or protect DVDs as well, so that you can't illegally copy films off a DVD. You need to protect those keys. So if you distribute those secret keys, those secret numbers, this is a real problem. And some people are claiming that it would be illegal to distribute those numbers. And so it's the number itself that becomes illegal. And there are some other problems as well because you can consider a digital photograph or a computer pro...
