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- From: brnstnd@nyu.edu (D. J. Bernstein)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: RSA-129 contest
- Message-ID: <5462.Aug2519.18.4392@virtualnews.nyu.edu>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 19:18:43 GMT
- References: <21385.Aug2322.57.0292@virtualnews.nyu.edu> <1992Aug24.224449.19714@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: IR
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- In article <1992Aug24.224449.19714@unislc.uucp> erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
- > Hey, Dan, a question: why do you always have to attempt to assert your
- > "knowledge" by insulting your readers?
-
- Hey, Ed, I'm not asserting my knowledge here.
-
- *Nobody* knows how to accurately estimate the time GNFS will take on a
- given number. I don't. Bob Silverman doesn't. Len Adleman doesn't. This
- isn't an insult: this is fact.
-
- Bob says GNFS will take longer than MPQS on RSA-129, based on his
- ``estimates.'' I challenge him to say what the estimates are---to say
- ``GNFS will take longer than [say] 8000 MIPS-years.'' He doesn't. This
- proves my point.
-
- Instead he challenges me, saying, ``Dan, why don't you say what your
- estimates are?'' The answer is obvious: *I don't know*. I don't yet have
- reliable estimates, and until somebody factors a 130-digit general
- number, *nobody* will have reliable estimates.
-
- Get it, Ed?
-
- ---Dan
-