Well, we're resting at least a trillion-USD economy on that "much less clear"; probably more. Given that, bad actors are properly incentivized to work on facto

Well, we're resting at least a trillion-USD economy on that "much less clear"; probably more. Given that, bad actors are properly incentivized to work on factoring, and we can take comfort that we haven't yet heard any evidence yet of a (quasi-) polynomial solution. That is assuming someone couldn't keep something like that a secret.