Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:51:51 -0400 From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> To: Jules Gilbert <repeatable_compression@yahoo.com> Cc: phk@phk.freebsd.dk, eric@metricspace.net, nwhitehorn@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, ben@links.org, pg@eth1.com, jeremiasfeliz@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Crypto overhaul Message-ID: <E1e8Z1D-0002Pw-EV@fencepost.gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <ca32d2f5-59a6-f245-0fa0-21d06e731e95@yahoo.com> (message from Jules Gilbert on Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:17:23 -0400) References: <dc08792a-3215-611c-eb9f-4936a0d621f9@metricspace.net> <CAG5KPzws=jmF2wLeEAz8Lzn7Ugude=0w5neoQjeDjYnGtJpS9Q@mail.gmail.com> <13959.1509132270@critter.freebsd.dk> <ca32d2f5-59a6-f245-0fa0-21d06e731e95@yahoo.com>
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[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I'm not a crypto person, but even I wrote a simple factoring program. > In C, using MAPM. I produce a few of the left-most bits for a,b, where: > c = a*b; > where a is: 3 .. sqrt(c) > and (of course,) b must be: greater than sqrt(c) If defeating RSA were this easy, the experts would know it and nobody would recommend using RSA. This includes the experts that I consult, that want to help GNU. I conclude you must have made a mistake somewhere. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.
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