> It’s still exponential

It's actually subexponential: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_number_field_sieve?wpr...

…but super-polynomial.

Like in the song!

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2004-June/00...

When's the coming age of crypto-anarchy?

Not sure! It sounded more imminent back in 2000 when I heard Eric Hughes perform the song.

I misspoke and corrected down thread.