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In message <20050513160714.GB32677@VARK.MIT.EDU>, David Schultz writes:

>But isn't this a well-known and fundamental problem with SMT?

Yes.

The news being only the speed: you can get 300 bits of the 512 bit
RSA key in a single observation of a single shot run of the crypto.

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