RSA Cryptosystem Broken (or all presently used public key cryptosystems cracked)

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    This won't do online transactions any good. The RSA public key cryptosystem has been broken, and hence all public key cryptosystems isomorphic to it, which is just about all of them, including elliptic curve systems.

    Online banking, online purchasing, and pretty much online anything now has deep an fundamental problems. Trading platforms are totally screwed. It is "all over, red rover" for cryptocurrencies and their "wallets" as well.

    Internet privacy, totally gone. Everything is being laid naked. Here is the mathematics:

    https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/232.pdf

    More than a few military and police agencies are now also seriously exposed.

    This is probably the straw that has broken the back of Western financial markets.

 
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