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I believe elliptic curves aren't broken by factoring. You might be confused with shor's algorithm. That is a quantum-algorithm that breaks both elliptic curves and RSA.

It doesn't break elliptic curve crypto by factoring numbers. Instead, it breaks them by solving the discrete logarithm problem.



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