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Old 23rd December 2008, 16:58   #25  |  Link
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Originally Posted by loo3aem3ON View Post
BD+ uses RSA signed certificates. RSA is at most as difficult as factoring. My previous postings gives an example of how the proposed new factoring algorithm works. It's complexity (cost) is still unknown (the author claims polynomial complexity but that could be wrong) therefor i can't say if it will enable us to factor this 1280 bit integer. A single run with this 1280-bit integer takes almost an hour. About m*n/2 runs will be necessary on average.
But what are m and n?

(The good thing about this is that it makes the process very very easy to split among multiple computers)

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