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		sillysaurusx on March 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Did Schnorr destroy RSA? Show me the factors There are lots of alternative constructions. ECC, for example. 1024-bit and higher RSA is still unfactorable, so I don't think anyone will be attacking RSA directly any time soon.

akvadrako on March 3, 2021 [–]

ECC is considered even less quantum resistant than RSA because the key lengths are so short.

DennisP on March 3, 2021 | [–]

But for now, it's more important to ask whether ECC is vulnerable to some variant of Schnorr's attack, which uses conventional computers. We already had an algorithm to break RSA on quantum.

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