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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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  > 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)
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