On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 04:15:27PM -0600, Aaron Blosser wrote:
>with Mersenne primes being one of the number multiplied, you only need try
>38 (not 37...doh!) numbers to try and factor with in order to find the pair.
Yeah, but what if you use some more times than others? Numbers can be
_combined_, you know. Even using them only once each, you get a keystrength of
38 bits. And that's only _once_ per Mersenne...
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