I wrote: > > https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/232.pdf > > Snakes. Oil. (**COUGH** Theranos **COUGH**) > We've been here before with Crown Sterling.
Sorry, I take that back, having just assumed this was the Crown Sterling guys (again). The current claim is _not_ from Crown Sterling but rather from serious mathematician and cryptographer Claus Peter Schnorr, who claims that prime factorization can be reduced to a much less intractable ‘shortest vector’ problem. My offhand reaction is that Schnorr's claim of greater efficacy has not yet been comprehensively demonstrated much less proven, so we will have to see whether the alleged advance in cryptoanalysis proves out in the real world. As this paper is only two days old, that skeptical evaluation has only now just started. (I haven't worked on number theory in decades, and so cannot comment even if I hadn't just now cracked open the abstract of Schnorr's paper.) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
