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Questions related to the (computational) complexity of solving problems

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Why hasn't there been an encryption algorithm that is based on the known NP-Hard problems?

Just to give a heuristic argument, based on practical experience. Almost all instances, of almost all NP-complete problems, are easy to solve. There are problems where this isn't true, but they are ha …
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