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[QUOTE="Joshua Cranmer, post: 3616725"]
Factoring's not dangerous... real security has progressed to more 
advanced forms, like elliptic curves. RSA retracted its factoring 
challenge because they considered the art sufficiently advanced that it 
wasn't needed anymore. Factoring is essentially a solved problem.

From what I've read on sci.math, it seems that your factoring algorithm 
as some subtle flaws, like the fact that is unable to a number like 6. 
My questions on that forum still stand, months-old as they are.

Moving out of mathematics and into CS...

And that was wrong.

So you want all the credit if it works and none of the toil of actually 
checking it? The world doesn't work like that. He who makes it work gets 
the credit.

While I don't wish mean to be rude, I doubt you would even if you solved

With all due respect, AFAICT, your great innovations seem to be down a 
dead-end path. Your surrogate factoring algorithm (AIUI) allows the 
surrogates to get arbitrarily big without anything to really convince me 
that it gets smaller. The TSP solution relies on simple properties that 
do poor jobs of reflecting the complexity of the graph.

Well, at least we are on the road to reclaiming c.l.j.p....
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