The Factoring Cryptopocalypse
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There has been some noise recently about a presentation at Black Hat 2013 entitled "Preparing for the Cryptopocalypse". Based on some recent research by Antoine Joux et al., the speakers argued that we should be prepared for the day when RSA is announced to be broken. Personally, I'm not so worried.
"When should we worry? If there's any hint of this work being extended to apply to prime fields."