Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked?

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Mon Jun 3 14:41:40 PDT 1996



Dr. Dimitri Vulis writes:
> ichudov at algebra.com (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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