n><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">NP</span></span></span></span> hypothesis and remains unproven and with little evidence to speak for it so far. What it entails, however, is that cryptography is basically useless if it turns out to be true, for it means that