Factoring - State of the Art and Predictions

[Jonathan Rochkind]

At 8:19 PM 02/12/95, Matt Blaze wrote:
>No it hasn't.  Factoring is believed to be hard, but no one has ever
>shown it to be NP-hard (let alone NP complete).

Woops.  Thanks for the correction, and thanks to everyone else who managed
to correct me within only minutes after I made the mistake.  :)  You can
all stop sending me mail now.

[Moral of the story: don't make a math error on the cypherpunks list.]