Best of 2013

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2013. 95 posts.

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The Factoring Cryptopocalypse

The key detail to understand about the work in the Joux papers is that it is limited to solving discrete logarithm problems over fields of small characteristic . As interesting as the work is, mathematically, it should not be a great surprise to cryptographers: We've known for over a decade that small-characteristic…