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1996-06-03 - Re: Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked?

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From: norm@netcom.com (Norman Hardy)
To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Message Hash: 97a9bce8beac3e69a37b29a059bfa9a224420b6a167681aec9a0e4e3aa93c2fe
Message ID: <add8d6a4070210044ee4@DialupEudora>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-06-03 22:50:03 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 06:50:03 +0800

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From: norm@netcom.com (Norman Hardy)
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 06:50:03 +0800
To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Subject: Re: Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked?
Message-ID: <add8d6a4070210044ee4@DialupEudora>
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At 8:01 AM 6/3/96, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>Dr. Dimitri Vulis writes:
....
>> 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

The "Idea Futures" forum has established odds on this. The current odds are
currently 60% that a 1024 bit number will be factored by 2010 and 30% that
a 512 bit number will be factored by 1997.

See <http://if.arc.ab.ca/IF.shtml> for Idea Futures and
<http://if.arc.ab.ca/bin/summary> for odds for various questions.

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