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Re: The end of public key cryptography as we know it?
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>In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Phil
>Fraering ) wrote:
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>> From: Doug Hughes <[email protected]>
>> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 13:46:10 -0500
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>> An article posted on sci.crypt stated that quantum factoring
>> is real and that an article was posted in this month's Science
>> magazine. The author of the post says this would make factoring
>> a 10 bit number the same time as factoring a 100000000 bit number.
>>
>>You can bet your ass and your mother's and grandmother's donatable
>>organs that if this were possible, then the legislative initiatives
>>currently underway would not be: they'd just let us use RSA and get
>>a false sense of security.
You give them too much credit.
Still, there's always IDEA and suchlike. The legislation would stand in
any event.
>Even with a quantum computer, factoring is still an extra step that is not
>required with GAK. Besides, factoring will always be more expensive than
>GAK, at least for the other side.
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