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by libeclipse 1937 days ago
Supposing the paper does describe a more efficient factorisation algorithm, that does not imply that factoring a 800 bit prime (like the author of this article suggests) would be cheap.
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factoring a 800 bit prime is definitely cheap. ;-)
In fact, I'll do it right now for you for only one dollar per bit.