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Re:Did Schnorr destroy RSA? Show me the factors by libeclipse on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:13PM (#26335456)
Supposing the paper does describe a more efficient factorisation algorithm, that does not imply that factoring a 800 bit prime (like the author of this article suggests) would be cheap.
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Re:Did Schnorr destroy RSA? Show me the factors by gowld on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:38PM (#26338328)
factoring a 800 bit prime is definitely cheap. ;-)
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Re:Did Schnorr destroy RSA? Show me the factors by core-questions on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:39PM (#26338335)
In fact, I'll do it right now for you for only one dollar per bit.
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