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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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Yep, being open and sharing this information via a paper or papers, slide decks and videos would help the science, engineering and technology fields advance faster than anyone thought possible.

Though, the full details would more then likely need to be delayed until higher end security improvements could be created. Maybe having the top in mathematics, especially cryptography, quantum mechanics work on creating more secure algorithms to be used.

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