[Gllug] RSA or DSA

[Tethys]

Nix writes:

>>            RSA is based on the principle (not proven) that factoring
>> large primes (as a way to crack the key) is difficult.
>
>Er, that should be large prime *products*.

Yep, an error famously made by Bill Gates in his book, "The road ahead",
where he claims:

	The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an
	easy way to factor large prime numbers.

Errr. OK... for any given prime, p:

	p = 1 * p

I win. Where's my prize?

Tet :-)
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