RSA Security LLC ;)
Other than that the whole tech sector will probably be impacted… what are you still doing with stocks anyway?
I don't play the stock market. Some infosec companies may make a killing helping everyone else "secure" their shit with ECC instead (kek)… Banks and exchanges probably the first to take their online sites down, with government portals following. Huge losses likely, especially for the exchanges. Then major panic for all the other hardware crap and legacy software that only supports RSA and can't be replaced.
Precious metals will be up, and probably cryptocurrencies after the inital panic selling when everyone figures out none of them are affected.. yet
Planning for the reactions is not an easy task
Then come the explosive leaks, when people start reading everything previously encrypted with GPG
First problem is that in order to win, you have to give your money to a bank up front. Mostly not a risk I'm willing to take, even when 100% sure on a bet. What we're doing here is unprecedented so I would love to see mathematical proof of what happens to the stock market when any RSA key can be factored in seconds… I can tell you exactly what tech breaks and what doesn't, but how that plays out when some CEO hears their bank can be hacked and overreacts is beyond even my intuition. There will be chaos, and if you can translate that into stock bets then have fun getting rich!
This is happening either way
Nothing would make me happier than the concept of money disappearing or just not having existed at all!
Still no luck changing my reality to that one, not for lack of trying
If you're talking decentralised, who generates the key? And how do you revoke it when one of the recipients gets busted?
All of it relies on asymmetric crypto of course, but I only know of one algorithm that supports generating the group key without trusting a single person to set the initial secret, and still allows updating that key for all new members without giving it anyone else
If you want to implement shit, here is a 3+ years old implementation of the paper, ignoring the reduction function
Probably also the first public one as I haven't seen this around
https://pastebin.com/XuN4U7Dv
Been a while since I looked at this code so don't ask me how it works :)
There is no way only a few people have this, we distribute the information or get killed (good luck assholes!).. You know some idiot is gonna try to spend the early coins and crash it before they even make it to payout.
The collapse has been a long time coming and if we can trigger it then more power to us, at least the early warning is nice :)
If you haven't prepped yet then better start. Didn't consider lighters as currency but damn now I'm gonna buy some.
Proving P=NP will make building awesome things (free energy anyone?) way easier as soon as we figure out wtf we're doing