> Eric Cordian[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
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> Ignoring for the moment that The Neo Project had zero chance of factoring
> a 2048 bit key using publicly available algorithms, their caving under
> imagined legal pressure strikes me as a really bad precedent.
>
[...]The Neo Project would almost certainly fail for a much simpler reason: they think trial division was a good approach to factoring large moduli. Just go and look at their technique - thats what it amounts to. Peter
