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A comment on Ask HN: If you found an easy way to factor large numbers, would you tell anyone?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: If you found an easy way to factor large numbers,... by johnloeber on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @12:47AM (#12252670)
Gotcha. Very interesting. Thanks for the information. I didn't expect that a compromise of RSA would have such a (relatively speaking) small impact.
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Re:Ask HN: If you found an easy way to factor large numbers,... by wolf550e on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @03:06PM (#12264087)
You wouldn't want to use a browser so old it doesn't support ECDSA with P-256 (e.g. Android < 4.0). There would be a lot of scary stories in the media, but servers can switch to ECDSA (e.g. let's encrypt supports it). Devices which cannot be updated (e.g. credit card terminals) would need to be replaced.
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