Re: Surrogate factoring explained
From: Décio Luiz Gazzoni Filho (decio_at_decpp.removethis.net)
Date: 02/24/05
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:59:58 -0300
ođin wrote:
>>> > Remember, the point of surrogate factoring is to break the RSA
>>> > encryption technique, which depends on picking special primes so that
>>> > their product is very hard to factor, by instead shifting to some
>>> > easier to factor number, and relating its factorization to the
>>> > factorization of your target.
>>>
>>> RSA doesn't depend on special primes.
>>
>> What is "special" about them is that they are "large".
>
> And James' surrogate is larger than the original composite target. What a
> fool.
Will you please drop this flawed argument? I've already shown that one can
pick easily factorable surrogates in a very efficient manner.
Décio
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