Factorization into prime numbers hasn't been proven to be NP-hard. In fact, it is believed to be NP-intermediate. Not going into too much detail, it basically means that most encryptions rely on a problem that is not amongst the "most complex" known problems. And therefore, it is theoretically possible to find an algorithm with a polynomial complexity to crack them all, without implying that P=NP. And thus the title of your article is wrong... It doesn't prevent it from being interesting though :)
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Factorization into prime numbers hasn't been proven to be NP-hard. In fact, it is believed to be NP-intermediate. Not going into too much detail, it basically means that most encryptions rely on a problem that is not amongst the "most complex" known problems. And therefore, it is theoretically possible to find an algorithm with a polynomial complexity to crack them all, without implying that P=NP. And thus the title of your article is wrong... It doesn't prevent it from being interesting though :)