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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: New PoW method using factorization of large numbers.
by
c_demian
on 27/03/2018, 22:32:44 UTC
It's a challenging proposal.
Prime numbers and numbers having small factors can be ruled out easily. Primality test is much faster than factoring and there are algorithms which are very fast in finding small factors (see elliptic curve factoring). so, you could just pick numbers with specified factor sizes.
This could also lead to finding new factoring algorithms.