Re: Factoring - State of the Art and Predictions

["James A. Donald" <jamesd@netcom.com>]

On Sun, 12 Feb 1995, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> Keep in mind that it's been mathematically proven that factoring is
> NP-complete.  That is, it's in the set of problems including such things as
> discrete logs and the travelling salesman problem, such that if a
> polynomial time solution is found to _any_ of these problems, one can be
> found for all of them. i

This is news to me!

I am fairly sure that factoring and discrete log are *not*
NP complete, and indeed there is no known way to use
NP complete problems for crypto.


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