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Subject: Re: Mersenne: The current situation
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On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, JAPH David Nicol wrote:
> > the GIMPS server
> > machines, which [the FBI] would be entitled to by many grounds,
> > weren't confiscated.
> > Perhaps they just haven't figured it out yet ;)
> Bring 'em on! That'll teach the TV-news-watching public what
> a prime number is!
Come on, use some imagination... Obiviously they aren't primes, they're
super-seekrit phone numbers gathered from the phone-system for the use of
foreign companies disguised as primes by encryption technology... after
all, in all prime-sites they say large primes are primarily used for
advanced cryptography! ;)
-Donwulff
