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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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