Piger Fabrica Syndrome Hits Devices
4 min readApr 1, 2019
What’s the shortest book in the world?
“The Even Prime Numbers”
which basically has one page which says the number “2”, followed by “The End”.
Well, researchers in the US have made the book a whole lot shorter by discovering certain weaknesses in using “2” as a prime number, and stumbled upon a major flaw in the implementation of public key on certain devices.
For this they have shaken the scientific world by discovering that “2” isn’t actually a prime number, as most people had thought…