On Aug 15, 2010, at 8:35 PM, Arash Partow wrote: > Just out of curiosity, assuming the optimal use of today's best of breed > factoring algorithms - will there be enough energy in our solar system to > factorize a 2048-bit RSA integer?
Computation can be performed with arbitrarily small energy expenditure or entropy increase. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing Not by the architectures we use, of course. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com
