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From: greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: factoring algorithms and RSA public key code
Message-ID: <2154@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 10:39:06 EST
Article-I.D.: utcsri.2154
Posted: Wed Feb 19 10:39:06 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Feb-86 10:44:08 EST
References: <5083@stolaf.UUCP> <1404@panda.UUCP> <980@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith)
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Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Keywords: RSA security
Summary: 

In article <980@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.ARPA writes:
>In article <1404@panda.UUCP> plw@panda.UUCP (Pete Williamson) writes:
>>I recently heard (second hand) that RSA has been rendered effectively
>>useless due to an advance in the strategy of factoring large numbers.
>>...
>Yet another illustration of the folly of basing cryptosystems
>on the presumed ignorance of the "enemy".
What else do you base them on?