FACTORING WITH HINTS

Francesco Sica

2020

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DOI 10.1515/jmc-2020-0078

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Abstract

We introduce a new approach to (deterministic) integer factorisation, which could be described in the cryptographically fashionable term of “factoring with hints”: we prove that, for any ϵ > 0, given the knowledge of the factorisations of O(N1/3+ϵ) terms surrounding N = pq product of two large primes, we can recover deterministically p and q in O(N1/3+ϵ) bit operations. This shows that the factorisations of close integers are non trivially related and that consequently one can expect more results along this line of thought.