Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

-- Steve Furlong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (Not that I'm particularly fond of the Prez, but I'm > not one of the LLLs who say he's worse than Hitler, > Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Ronald Regan combined.) (Stalin > doesn't go into that equation because he was, you > know, a good guy whose actions have be

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

On 9/16/05, R.A. Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Time travel aside (okay, innumeracy aside, some state-school philosophy > majors can't count, either...), if I'm a reporter, this is "new > journalism", since most of the missive is about *wonderful* *ME*... Never mind the numbers. How does th

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

On 9/19/05, R.A. Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2:29 PM -0400 9/19/05, Steve Furlong wrote: > >What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine? > > There you go again... Just to be clear, that's what I'd expect the current wave of j-school grads to be asking, not what I'd be

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

At 2:29 PM -0400 9/19/05, Steve Furlong wrote: >What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine? There you go again... Cheers, RAH I feel *gd*... -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA

Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

Eran Tromer of Weizmann Institute gave a talk at MIT on special-purpose factoring machines, and Intrepid Reporter Bob Hettinga summarized to Perry's List. Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:12:30 -0400 To: cryptography@metzdowd.com From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: MIT talk: Special

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

At 11:34 AM -0700 9/16/05, Bill Stewart wrote: >>So, I saw this here at Farquhar Street at 14:55EST, jumped in the shower, >>thus missing the train 13:20 train at Rozzy Square :-), instead took the ^ >>bus, and then the T, and got to MIT's New Funny-Looking Building abo