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Re:Did Schnorr destroy RSA? Show me the factors by kadoban on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @09:11PM (#26337742)
It's generally accepted for almost all crypto protocols that it's going to be broken eventually (a few rare cases are provably secure, one-time pads and not much else).

If nothing else, quantum computers should break RSA in particular (the algorithm is already known and just waiting for hardware) and the writing has been on the wall there for a long time.

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Re:Did Schnorr destroy RSA? Show me the factors by vbezhenar on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:41AM (#26340853)
> It's generally accepted for almost all crypto protocols that it's going to be broken eventually

Just like it was generally accepted that god exists. Those claims are of similar strength.

> If nothing else, quantum computers should break RSA in particular

Quantum computers with enough qubits do not exist and it's absolutely not obvious whether they will exist at all.

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Re:Did Schnorr destroy RSA? Show me the factors by saagarjha on Friday March 05, 2021 @12:22AM (#26353068)
Cryptographically protocols have attacks designed against them all the time.
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