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Re:Did Schnorr destroy RSA? Show me the factors by pdonis on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @06:17PM (#26336230)
> the article says it would take around a thousand CPU core years to break 800-bit RSA

That's for previous algorithms, not the one described in the paper.

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Re:Did Schnorr destroy RSA? Show me the factors by ajarmst on Thursday March 04, 2021 @12:50AM (#26339105)
He doesn't need to demonstrate it with an 800-bit number. Given the claims made about how much faster this is, the effect should show up even in fairly small numbers.
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