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- From: phkahler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (KAHLER PAUL H.)
- Subject: Re: Trivial
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.174553.437@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
- Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:45:53 GMT
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- I am the one who posted the original question X^2 == Y mod N.
- We can stop yelling at bob for saying it is trivial now, but thanks
- for defending me. As for bob, I would expect a little arrogance from
- him. After all, he is fairly well known (I have seen many references
- to his work) and with a reputation, you just can't help it :-)
-
- To Bob: No I'm not using a STUPID method to find X when N is prime.
- And my problem is NOT trivial, because I don't have the factors of N!
-
- What I am really trying to do is factor N. I realized that I could do
- this quickly if I could take square roots mod N. I found out how to do
- it if N is prime, so I thought maybe.... I should have thought that if
- anyone knew how to solve this without knowing the factors of N then the
- factoring problem would have been solved already (the connection is
- obvious, but I havent seen it stated explicitly). For this I am a fool.
-
- Thanks to all those who responded. I should have been more specific.
- I'll go crawl back in my hole now. :-)
-
- Paul
-