> who's opinion on the security of modern cryptographic protocols would you be more willing to follow

I'll follow the people who have actually done work in cryptography. I'm neither under the impression that Wiles himself (or Fermat, if we could resuscitate him!) would have much to say about cryptography, nor do I believe that you have a "simple" proof of FLT.

But in any case you missed the substantial point of my comment: whether or not FLT is true (and no matter how short the proof is) is completely irrelevant to modern cryptography, which relies on entirely different problems (e.g. factoring or discrete logarithms).

> But in any case you missed the substantial point of my comment: whether or not FLT is true

but that is you missing my point, a person finding a succinct machine verifiable proof demonstrates better knowledge of the basic relationships than a convoluted putative proof

integers, integer powers, primes,... none of that has any bearing on cryptography?