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Re:“This destroys the RSA cryptosystem” by schoen on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @08:43PM (#26323681)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#Classi...

Both, but neither for as long a period of time beforehand as you remember.

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Re:“This destroys the RSA cryptosystem” by _dps on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @09:03PM (#26323816)
Aha! Good correction, thank you. I must have been remembering how long the discovery remained classified, not how long it predated the public discovery.
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