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justplay | 1 year ago

does the current largest prime number have any practical implications as for today ?

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TZubiri|1 year ago

Most cryptography is based on factoring difficulty

schoen|1 year ago

Not using primes anywhere near the range of the largest-known ones.

The primes in your RSA keys are likely to be 1024-bit primes, or about 308 digits.