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Comment author: wnoise 28 January 2011 08:30:31PM *  2 points [-]

Incorrect, the best factoring algorithms are subexponential.

To clarify, subexponential does not mean polynomial, but super-polynomial.

(Interestingly, while factoring a given integer is hard, there is a way to get a random integer within [1..N] and its factorization quickly. See Adam Kalai's paper Generating Random Factored Numbers, Easily (PDF).

Comment author: JoshuaZ 28 January 2011 08:38:44PM 0 points [-]

Interesting. I had not seen that paper before. That's very cute.