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> their recommendations for crypto are regarded with a significant degree of skepticism Indeed. Once you start talking about magical constants and extremely co
by bob1029 4y ago
> their recommendations for crypto are regarded with a significant degree of skepticism
Indeed. Once you start talking about magical constants and extremely convoluted math concepts... that's zero trust in my book.
Integer factorization is a grade school concept in most developed nations. The edge cases are far more obvious than with something like ECC, which has entire classes of no-good constants that would require a PhD in math to fully grok.
- Godel_unicode 4y agoPrime factorization is one of the great unsolved problems in mathematics and if you can solve it there is a million dollar prize with your name on it. There are all kinds of issues with implementing crypto safely on top of it (google “Fermat factorization”), some related to bad constants. Being well known doesn’t make the math easy.