On Lehmer's Totient Conjecture

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I came across Lehmer's problem in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehmer%27s_totient_problem

and do not grasp why it may be of any interest. Are there any serious consequences or insights if it is really confirmed ? I suppose people who struggle(d) for the overwhelming results cited in Wikipedia did not spend their valuable time when there is no deeper consequence/implication.

So I suppose a solution to this problem cited from Wikipedia : "The top line in the graph, $y = n − 1$, is a true upper bound. It is attained whenever n is prime."

Did Lehmer want to prove that the line is only attained by primes ?

But this seems not so difficult and probably is known already !?

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Lehmer is famous for finding large prime numbers. He did that using theorems about primes, rather than trial division. (Rather than testing $n/3,n/5,n/7$ and so on.)
For example, Fermat's Little Theorem $$a^{p-1} \equiv 1 \bmod p \text{ for } a \text{ coprime to }p$$ generalizes to Euler's Theorem $$a^{\varphi(n)} \equiv 1 \bmod n \text{ for } a \text{ coprime to }n.$$ If $\varphi(n)$ is a factor of $n-1$, then it follows that $a^{n-1} \equiv 1 \bmod n.$ Lehmer calculated huge powers $a^k\bmod p$, with tests that only prime numbers passed. This totient problem is related, and if no non-primes have $\varphi(n)|n-1$, then different primality tests may be possible.