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Re: Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked?

To: [email protected] (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Subject: Re: Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked?
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 12:01:44 -0400
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Dr. Dimitri Vulis writes:
> [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.

Why do you assume that? There are plenty of problems that are
provably not solvable in non-exponential time even if P=NP. What makes
you think this one is going to be solved?

.pm

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