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Comment on Ask HN: If you found an easy way to factor large numbers, would you tell anyone?

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No. My safety is more important than my ego.

But you could at least give advance warning. Let people in the right places know things are fundamentally broken, have them, as someone else said, revoke certificates, and other similar ways to prevent it from being absurdly catastrophic while we try to replace it.

If you found out, someone else almost certainly will as well.

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