Re:Ask HN: If you found an easy way to factor large numbers,...
by nso95 on Monday August 08, 2016 @09:46PM
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No. My safety is more important than my ego.
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Re:Ask HN: If you found an easy way to factor large numbers,...
by rjbwork on Monday August 08, 2016 @10:01PM
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But you could at least give advance warning. Let people in the right places know things are fundamentally broken, have them, as someone else said, revoke certificates, and other similar ways to prevent it from being absurdly catastrophic while we try to replace it.
If you found out, someone else almost certainly will as well.