[jMyles]

> This would massively break basically all traditional public key crypto i think (depends a bit on if it extends to eliptic-curve or just integer based RSA).

"A bit"? A lot more than a bit. A world.

And on the surface, since it appears to be a factoring system, rather than a general purpose discrete log solver, the consequences, while incredible, are far more limited than the picture you paint. If this is even true; a matter over which I'm skeptical.