> George has announced that the number that was suspected
> prime has been
> confirmed to be prime by different hardware and algorithms.
> Because of
> the EFF award money rules, we "GIMPS at large" will not be
> permitted to
> know what the exponent was, or who discovered it, until an
> article
in a completely professional manner.
There are thousands of us now searching for Mersenne primes who would
otherwise not have had the chance, and I imagine virtually all of us
are greatful to you for that.
Most of my machines are already converted. Let's find more!
Best regards,
Robert
> FWIW, that whole Pentium III fiasco regarding privacy was
> about the CPU ID
> on the chip. Well, Intel built a hardware RNG onto the chip
> which is used
> in the process of psuedo-encrypting this value. Not sure
> about the details,
> but I'm pretty sure it's just picking up thermal noise.
