i understand not every piece of software can be updated, but when something like heart bleed was release - correct me if i am wrong here - but millions of machines were updated.<p>if i read this article correctly, if we could update millions of computers in a short period of time with a new prime number that would be enough to solve this problem in the short term - long term all we need to do is change the prime number every X number of months, were X would require billions (as opposed to hundreds of millions) of dollars to solve