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- From: martin@math.rwth-aachen.de ( Martin Schoenert)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,sci.math
- Subject: Re: Oh yeah? Factor this...
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:04:15 GMT
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- strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
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- bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
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- gilgalad@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
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- 27392450308603031423410234291674686281194364367580914627947367941608692026226993634332118404582438634929548737283992369758487974306317730580753883429460344956410077034761330476016739454649828385541500213920807
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- Can you factor this number [in your lifetime]? If so, you may be
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- What is the source for this number? Is it a random integer? Is it
- an RSA number, constructed as the product of nearly equal primes?
- If the latter it is out of current computational range.
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- (Correcting a previous post)
- Couldn't you take the approximate square root of the number, truncate the
- result, and then start searching up and down from there if the number is the
- product of two nearly equal primes?
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- Yes you could, of course. Note however, that the number has 209 digits.
- Now suppose that it has two prime factors of with 100 digits and 109
- digits. Then you would search quite a while. Bob probably meant that it
- must not be the product of two primes of nearly equal *size*. Especially
- it must not have a prime factor with less than 40 digits, otherwise it
- would be possible to attact it with the elliptic curve method.
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- Martin.
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