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RE: Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked?



but probably not for decent RSA key lengths -- more probably the hashing
algorithm used will fall, with much the same consequences.

mattt

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>Sent: 	Sunday, June 02, 1996 6:49 PM
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>Subject: 	Re: Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked?
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>[email protected] (Igor Chudov @ home) writes:
>> scheme gets broken somehow? Suppose, for example, that someone
>> discovers an ultra-fast factoring algorithm or something like that.
>
>This'll happen, probably sooner than later.
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