[Cryptography] Rumor has it that AES-256 is broken (again!)

[Dave Horsfall]

On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, R. Hirschfeld wrote:

> > 1)  Major breakthrough in factoring reduces factoring time by many
> >     orders of magnitude.  Unlikely at best, and would qualify someone
> >     for a Nobel prize in mathematics.
> 
> Quite a feat as there's no Nobel prize in mathematics!  ;-)

No; it's called the Fields Medal.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal

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