Re: New way to factor? Yes!
From: Richard Cavell (richardcavell_at_mail.com)
Date: 02/09/05
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 11:33:23 +1100
On 8/2/05 11:34 PM, José Carlos Santos wrote:
> Dave Turner wrote:
>
>> I love crypto but i'm a just part-time amateur, everything you've said is
>> beyond what most of us can understand, so my question is:
>> If somebody gave you a large prime number, could you factor it? Wouldn't
>> doing so shut your critics up? :-)
>
>
> Give me *any* prime number, as large as you want, and I assure you that
> I can factor it! :-)
>
Go to rsasecurity.com. There's a competition there worth a few hundred
thousand US dollars to factor some big numbers. Go make some money.
Also, Microsoft's X-box has a 2048 bit RSA key that some people want to
see broken. That's worth $10,000.
This is the easiest way to shut your critics up, and to buy yourself a
Mercedes as compensation.
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