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shinohai: Some morning lulz for those that follow shitcoin shenanigans: http://btc.info.gf/blog/bsv-bug-leaves-nodes-unsure-which-scam-chain-to-follow.html
Apocalyptic: adlai, here's the reasoning: If you just generate random (very likely composite) p and q's, it's not very practical to factor at scales (take for exemple the modulus I mentioned above, it still isn't fully factored and a great deal of CPU cycles were wasted already)
Apocalyptic: instead the enemy choses a prime from a know list, then multiplies by a random composite to get to the desired size
Apocalyptic: *known
Apocalyptic: this gives the appearence of random numbers should it be discovered, but gives people with access to the pre-defined prime list an easy and practical way to factor those, since the only have to factor the composite part which has many small factors
Apocalyptic: so I guess this matches your ring formulation above; note that pre-defined prime list can be quite large
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