At 08:56 AM 2/27/2002 +, Brian J Beesley wrote:
1 an increase in the rate at which the NFS people are factoring awkward
Mersenne numbers;
I might point to the primenumbers Yahoogroup, which recently had a
discussion to the effect that NFSnet might be restarting fairly soon
Nathan
On Wednesday 27 February 2002 05:07, you wrote:
Well anything that can increase the speed of TF by even a wee amount is
welcome by me.
Unfortunately there is no impact on trial factoring. The technique suggested
is an improvement requiring specialized hardware of a technique which is only
On Wednesday 27 February 2002 19:28, Justin Valcourt wrote:
Which brings up something that I just wondered about.
As far as FFT operations go for LL and DC, if some crazy person who had
millions to spend (ie we are talking pure theory here) to hire a chip
maker, could a coprocessor be made
http://slashdot.org
factoring breakthrough?
YotN,
Henk Stokhorst
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That paper sounds like a genuine revolution.
I have looked at two papers of Bernstein before, Prime Sieves Using
Binary Quadratic Forms together with A.O.L. Atkin (algorithm a.k.a.
Sieve of Atkin, implementation by Bernstein available under the name
primegen), and How to Find Small Factors of
On 26 Feb 2002, at 19:46, Henk Stokhorst wrote:
http://slashdot.org
factoring breakthrough?
Doesn't look like a breakthrough, although there may be a very
significant reduction in the amount of work required to factor
awkward numbers.
The implications in terms of public key cryptography
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On 26 Feb 2002, at 19:46, Henk Stokhorst wrote:
http://slashdot.org
factoring breakthrough?
Doesn't look like a breakthrough, although there may be a very
significant reduction in the amount of work required to factor
awkward numbers.
The implications
Well anything that can increase the speed of TF by even a wee amount is
welcome by me.
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There was an article in Monday's Rocky Mountain News about my case. I
thought some of you here might find it interesting since our good friend
George and Michael Lewis are quoted in the article. Plus there is a
reference to the GIMPS home page. *Maybe* there will be more GIMPS members
as a
