- Original Message -
From: Brian J. Beesley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Gareth Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: Mersenne: Modularising Prime95/mprime - a path to broader
development.
In the final analysis, the best deterrent
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 23:08, Gareth Randall wrote:
Could you please expand upon how this secure certificate concept would
work, for the benefit of myself and the list? Unless there is more to it
than I currently comprehend, this only authenticates results as coming from
specific users,
Hi,
Wouldn't it be great if from some point in the near future, feature
request posts to this newsgroup became more like I've written a
fancy
improved frontend to GIMPS with some cool graphics, see this link
for
more
info,
Actually that happened Sunday!
Would you please give some
Dear Brian,
Could you please expand upon how this secure certificate concept would work, for
the benefit of myself and the list? Unless there is more to it than I currently
comprehend, this only authenticates results as coming from specific users,
rather than authenticating that the result is
Dear All,
I'd like to suggest that prime95/mprime be modularised, and that only the core
calculation component be kept closed source. I realise that the code for
generating verification codes must remain restricted, because that is the only
authentication that work has really been done and
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 17:28, Gareth Randall wrote:
I'd like to suggest that prime95/mprime be modularised, and that only the
core calculation component be kept closed source.
Umm - actually the core calculation component is open source (but subject
to restrictive licence). See
Quoting Brian J. Beesley [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
4. (Important) Ease of implementation on other platforms. Only the
core
computation stuff really needs to be optimized to all hell. The
server comms
general control stuff would probably be more than efficient enough
if it
was implemented in
