Re: Public Key Break Paper

[mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)]

Truthmonger writes:

>   Anything Phill casts aspersions on has to be worth checking out:
>   http://jya.com/snlhit.htm


Just did.  It's crap. 

This alleged algorithm actually got pretty thoroughly trashed in sci.crypt
when it first came to light a few years back. 

It's a lot worse for large moduli than almost anything else out there, and
the author clearly has little understanding of the problem he is
attacking. 

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