Re: [CFRG] factoring integers by CVP and SVP algorithms

Thanks all for the quick sanity checks!

-Ben

On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 01:41:50AM +0000, isis agora lovecruft wrote:
> Peter Gutmann transcribed 0.7K bytes:
> > Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> writes:
> > 
> > >I was linked to the paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/232.pdf with comment
> > >"this destroys RSA".  I haven't attempted to evaluate that claim myself, but
> > >figured that people here might be interested.
> > 
> > The same thing cropped up on the cryptography list, my response there was:
> > 
> >   There's something odd about this, while the paper is by Claus Schnorr it's
> >   an old work from 2019, and the abstract on the IACR web page doesn't match
> >   the one in the paper.  In particular the paper never mentions RSA anywhere
> >   in it, compared to the abstract's "This destroyes [sic] the RSA
> >   cryptosystem".
> > 
> > Peter.
> 
> There's pretty strong evidence that this was a hoax.
> 
> https://twitter.com/isislovecruft/status/1366922426106318851?s=20
> 
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