Breaking RSA may not be equivalent to factoring (Fwd)

by way of Vin McLellan (fisherm@tce.com)
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:09:53 -0500

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[Fwd from Cypherpunks]

Some recent work from EUROCRYPT '98:
        http://theory.stanford.edu/~dabo/abstracts/no_rsa_red.html
(abstract)
        http://theory.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/no_rsa_red.ps.gz (full
paper, gzipped PostScript)

However, they've only proved that breaking RSA != factoring, so they don't
think they've exposed any weakness in RSA. Just another
datapoint...

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