RE: Mersenne: Case against running prime95 as an NT service with a GUI.

2002-08-10 Thread Joshua Borton
Prime95 itself will not be a target, it is not widespread enough to work with.. however, nearly every desktop runs antivirus software, which normally runs as administrator or system.. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mersenne-invalid- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf

RE: Mersenne: Double Checking Errors (and Prime95 NT service issues)

2002-08-10 Thread Aaron Blosser
I think looking at that file would at least provide interesting to the curious among us. I say "go for it" :) Aaron PS - Regarding the running Prime95 as an NT service... I concur that if you run it on your own machine, it's obviously not a security risk since I'd hope that you're already a loc

Re: Mersenne: Double Checking Errors

2002-08-10 Thread Anurag Garg
Yes George, A list of all bad results would be an excellent idea. It would go a long way in helping us keep tabs on our computers and at the same time keep the stats junkies - like those on Team Prime Rib :-) - accurately informed on their contribution or lack thereof. Anurag Garg _

Re: Mersenne: Double Checking Errors

2002-08-10 Thread George Woltman
At 07:28 PM 8/9/2002 -0700, Gary Edstrom wrote: >That brings to mind another question. I was wondering what you >do when you detect an error during double checking. Do you notify the >person that sent in the erroneous result so that he can check out his >computer further? No, for several reason

Re: Mersenne: Case against running prime95 as an NT service with a GUI.

2002-08-10 Thread Jeff Woods
At 11:33 AM 8/10/02 +0100, you wrote: >A short time ago there was a discussion relating to the prime95 process >running as System on NT/2000, and the subject of security issues relating >to it being accessible from a normal user's desktop came up. The article >linked below describes a serious

Re: Mersenne: Case against running prime95 as an NT service witha GUI.

2002-08-10 Thread Alexander Kruppa
Gareth Randall wrote: > A short time ago there was a discussion relating to the prime95 process > running as System on NT/2000, and the subject of security issues > relating to it being accessible from a normal user's desktop came up. > The article linked below describes a serious security issu

Mersenne: Case against running prime95 as an NT service with a GUI.

2002-08-10 Thread Gareth Randall
A short time ago there was a discussion relating to the prime95 process running as System on NT/2000, and the subject of security issues relating to it being accessible from a normal user's desktop came up. The article linked below describes a serious security issue caused by this scenario, in

Mersenne: Re: Any Comments On The Significance For GIMPS Of The New "Kanpur" Primality Algorithm?

2002-08-10 Thread Richard Woods
> Referring to the work, recently in the news, of Mssrs. Manindra > Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena. This is the same work to which Jens Pfeiffer referred in a Wed, 7 Aug 2002 17:37:27 +0200 posting with subject "Mersenne: find primes in polynomial time?" Parallelling Paul Leyland's respo

Mersenne: Any Comments On The Significance For GIMPS Of The New "Kanpur" Primality Algorithm?

2002-08-10 Thread xqrpa
Referring to the work, recently in the news, of Mssrs. Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena.   Thanks, Stefanovic