Re: Critiquing surrogate factoring

From: Pubkeybreaker (Robert_silverman_at_raytheon.com)
Date: 03/30/05


Date: 30 Mar 2005 08:26:20 -0800

Actually, No.

Fermat's method factors N directly by representing it exactly as the
difference of two squares. N = x^2 - y^2.