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Author: Mike Tubby
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Is RSA broken? Or is it a hoax?
Try this:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/03/no-rsa-is-not-broken.html

Mike

On 13/03/2021 20:44, Rick Moen wrote:
> I wrote:
>
>>> https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/232.pdf
>> Snakes. Oil. (**COUGH** Theranos **COUGH**)
>> We've been here before with Crown Sterling.
> Sorry, I take that back, having just assumed this was the Crown Sterling
> guys (again). The current claim is _not_ from Crown Sterling
> but rather from serious mathematician and cryptographer Claus Peter
> Schnorr, who claims that prime factorization can be reduced to a much
> less intractable ‘shortest vector’ problem.
>
> My offhand reaction is that Schnorr's claim of greater efficacy
> has not yet been comprehensively demonstrated much less proven, so
> we will have to see whether the alleged advance in cryptoanalysis
> proves out in the real world. As this paper is only two days old,
> that skeptical evaluation has only now just started.
>
> (I haven't worked on number theory in decades, and so cannot comment
> even if I hadn't just now cracked open the abstract of Schnorr's paper.)
>
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