From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 95 17:07:57 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: The end of public key cryptography as we know it?
Message-ID: <199507140005.UAA04037@bb.hks.net>
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In article <199507132009.AA15283@tyrell.net>, pgf@tyrell.net (Phil
Fraering       ) wrote:

>   From: Doug Hughes <Doug.Hughes@eng.auburn.edu>
>   Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 13:46:10 -0500
>
>   An article posted on sci.crypt stated that quantum factoring
>   is real and that an article was posted in this month's Science
>   magazine. The author of the post says this would make factoring
>   a 10 bit number the same time as factoring a 100000000 bit number.
>
>You can bet your ass and your mother's and grandmother's donatable
>organs that if this were possible, then the legislative initiatives
>currently underway would not be: they'd just let us use RSA and get
>a false sense of security.

Even with a quantum computer, factoring is still an extra step that is not
required with GAK. Besides, factoring will always be more expensive than
GAK, at least for the other side.

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