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Re: will ted kaczynski solve prime factorization and crash the price of bitcoin?
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jonald_fyookball
on 27/04/2017, 03:09:01 UTC
Bitcoin has nothing to do with prime numbers.

I am not an expert, but doesn't the private key-public key combination involve prime numbers in some sense?
Irrespective of that, I don't believe prime factorization can be cracked.

RSA does.  Not ECDSA.