Factor Breakthru!

[Barbara L Marco]

On Mon, 29 Nov 1993, Matthew J Miszewski wrote:

> 'Punks,
>  
>   Just curious as to what would (or will eventually) happen when a shortcut
> to factoring large numbers is discovered?  Do we revert to older less
> secure conventions or am I missing something?
You have been watching too much sneakers my friend :) No, If we were to do
that, I'm sure different methods of encryption would come up, maybe using
letters instead of numbers, etc.
Dr. No - [lmb at tenet.edu]