I have a purely hypothetical thought experiment.Let's say, purely hypothetically, I've stumbled upon a reasonably effective way to factor large numbers. Given a 2048-bit RSA key, I can produce the two primes that multiply to it in 16 hours on consumer hardware.What is my theoretical best path to fame, fortune, and not dying?1. Hack banks. Steal stuff. Break encrypted communications. Sell my services on the black market. Need to avoid getting tortured and murdered by government black ops.2. Publicly announce it. Offer or sell it to the highest bidder, presumably a nation-state. Spend the rest of my life in hiding and government protection, and/or get murdered by government black ops.3. Publicly release it. The world briefly goes crazy. Banks and governments scramble to upgrade to PQC. I probably don't get murdered, but I haven't benefited at all (besides getting my name in math textbooks).Anyone have other ideas? Again, just a thought experiment.
>>17030061Hypothetically if you had the smarts to do that you would hypothetically figure out the significantly easier part of getting rich on a world changing invention. Purely hypothetically speaking of course :^)Try /biz/ or /x/ maybe?
>>17030061>Publicly release it.YesYou'll be a professor, get sponsorships, make a podcast whatever
