A detailed exploration of why cryptography relies on average-case hard problems rather than NP-complete problems, explaining how cryptographic security requires randomly selected problem instances to be consistently difficult. The discussion clarifies the distinction between worst-case hardness in complexity theory and the practical requirements for cryptographic security, using RSA as a primary example.

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