Re: objectivity and factoring analysis

Paul Crowley writes: > Silverman is AFAICT the most knowledgeable person to have commented on > all this. He has no axe to grind, unless you count the inexcusably > unfair treatment he received from RSA. > > All of his sci.crypt comments are available with this search: > > http://groups.google.c

Re: Any info on this maybe improved matrix algebra for GNFS?

Francois, This is a new implementation, not a new method, though there are some neat tricks in this implementation. Ben Handley from the University of Otago in New Zealand worked for us last winter and spent some time on a fast implementation of the block Lanczos algorithm with the speed

Any info on this maybe improved matrix algebra for GNFS?

Found the following at "(..) The paper, written by Nicko van Someren, CTO of nCipher Corp., a security equipment vendor based in Cambridge, England (..) discloses that (..) a student researcher at nCipher recently developed a new implemen

RE: Lucky's 1024-bit post [was: RE: objectivity and factoring analysis]

Enzo wrote: > Further to Lucky's comments: in the last few days I have > discussed keysize issues with a few people on a couple of > mailing lists, and I have encountered a hostility to large > keysizes of which, frankly, I don't understand the reasons. > On the client side at least, performan

Re: Lucky's 1024-bit post [was: RE: objectivity and factoring analysis]

Further to Lucky's comments: in the last few days I have discussed keysize issues with a few people on a couple of mailing lists, and I have encountered a hostility to large keysizes of which, frankly, I don't understand the reasons. On the client side at least, performance is not an issue: PGP 7.