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- From: alex@otis (The Console DJ)
- Subject: Re: Prime Number Generator
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.160225.26724@gateway.novell.com>
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- References: <grtyj5-@rpi.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:02:25 GMT
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- In article <grtyj5-@rpi.edu> cleggp@aix.rpi.edu (Paul Jason Clegg) writes:
- >I'm interested in generating large prime numbers for use in some public key
- >code encryption schemes, and I'm looking for the fastest way to generate all
- >the primes from 2 up to as high as I can go on my 386/25 (Using BC++ 3.1, I
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- Someone correct me if I am wrong but the whole idea behind the encryption is
- the large prime numbers are difficult to calulate??? Actually there should
- be no known algorithm (except brute force try every number thingy).
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- <blah blah blah employer blah not blah responsible blah my opinion blah >
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