Piger Fabrica Syndrome Hits Devices

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
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…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.