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by SuchAnonMuchWow 1928 days ago
As stated in your comment, eliptic curve cryptography relies on discrete logarithm but this algorithm is a method for factoring integers, with ideas similar to the Quadratic Sieve algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_sieve).

It does not extend to breaking eliptic-curve cryptography, for the same reason that the Quadratic Sieve does not extend to eliptic-curve crypto: the underling math problem is different (factorisation vs discrete logarithm).