Date: 10 Feb 97 14:16:16 -0600 From: "Richard Wackerbarth" <rkw@dataplex.net> To: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@consys.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cool RSA Challenge project, friendly to FreeBSD Message-ID: <AF24DE33-110BC7@204.69.236.50>
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On Mon, Feb 10, 1997 11:20 AM, Russell L. Carter
<mailto:rcarter@consys.com> wrote:
>
>Those that don't mind hosting a possibly innocuous, polite,
>cpu-cycle parasite might have a look at
[snip]
>(I have no connection whatsoever to these people)
As an alternative, you might consider ....
(I DO have a connection to THESE people ;-)
>From a recent news release...
NFSNET, a group of people who factor large numbers using the
Number Field Sieve algorithm, announces a record factorization:
On Tuesday, 4 February 1997, we completed the factorization of a
composite number of 167 digits, one of the `More Wanted' factorizations
of the Cunningham Project. It is:
3,349- = (3^349 - 1)/2 = c167 = p80 * p87
where
p80 = 940428508899845109982891523204385417985320180216539562\
83741193211654025280185459
p87 = 174165493740875256464746388999480533990944334266849687\
054611524922878840708206608860499
[snip]
The penultimate prime factor has 80 digits, a record. The 167-digit
number is also the largest number ever factored by the Number Field
Sieve.
[snip]
NFSNET is a collaborative effort to factor numbers by the Number Field
Sieve. It relies on volunteers from around the world who contribute
the "spare time" of a large number of workstations to perform the
sieving.
The organizers and principal researchers:
Marije Elkenbracht-Huizing, Peter Montgomery, Bob Silverman,
Richard Wackerbarth, Sam Wagstaff, Jr.
[snip]
If you would like to volunteer the services of your workstation to
help factor large numbers, please email rkw@factoring.dataplex.net
to learn how to join NFSNET.
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