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0 pointspdonis5y ago0 comments

> 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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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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0 pointspdonis5y ago0 comments

> 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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ajarmst5y ago

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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