Re: New way to factor? Yes!
From: Martin Bodenstedt (martin.bodenstedt_at_gmx.de)
Date: 02/09/05
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:16:26 +0100
Richard Cavell wrote:
>>
>> 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.
You didn't get it:
Any prime (PRIME!) number is easily factored:
1 and itself
it was meant as a joke!
The RSA contest ist about a product of two huge primes...
-- Martin Bodenstedt www.landtag-bw.de / www.die-bodenstedts.de
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