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Re: Factoring - State of the Art and Predictions
Johnathan Rochkind writes:
>
>Keep in mind that it's been mathematically proven that factoring is
>NP-complete.
...
No it hasn't. Factoring is believed to be hard, but no one has ever
shown it to be NP-hard (let alone NP complete).
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>factoring. Logarithms, for instance, are used in some crypto systems, and
>are another suspected Hard Problem, but are also NP complete. So if
>factoring is solved, discrete logarithms will be solved too.
Ditto for discrete log.
-matt