Re: 42nd Known Mersenne Prime Found == 2^25,964,951-1 == The number has 7,816,230 digits
From: Décio Luiz Gazzoni Filho (decio_at_decpp.removethis.net)
Date: 02/28/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 01:27:08 -0300
superuser wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:34:58 +0000 (UTC), daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu
> (David Wagner) wrote:
>
>>John E. Hadstate wrote:
>>>"superuser" <superuser@domain.com> wrote in message:
>>>> http://www.mersenne.org/
>>>>
>>>
>>>We were too busy arguing [...] to pay any serious
>>>attention to a crypto-related topic.
>>
>>Does finding another Mersenne prime have any implications for
>>cryptography? I can't think of any.
>
> 25,964,950-bit RSA?
Uh, I don't think so. Maybe Diffie-Hellman or ElGamal.
Décio
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