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Self-taught Belgian bloke cracks crypto conundrum that was supposed to be uncrackable until 2034

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So, the real question is now ..

.. did our crafty Belgian just rip a giant hole in the cryptographic protection of our data by means of creating a shortcut, or are we still moderately OK feeding websites our credit card numbers so THEY leak them and not us?

I'm not quite awake today (4:00am finish, 9:00 restart and not enough coffee), but that's what I ende up wondering about. Kudos for the achievement, but does this imply side effects?

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