Re: Factoring News

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From: David Sternlight
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 22:27

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Arjen Lenstra posts a 3-week factorization of a 158 digit number which
is the product of a 69 and 90 digit prime. Please help a layman
understand the significance of this.

What does this mean, if anything, for the "cracking" of an RSA 1024 bit
key? for DES?

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arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pmafire!news.dell.com!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!malgudi.oar.net!caen!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!kronos.arc.nasa.gov!iscnvx!netcomsv!netcom.com!strnlght

References: <1992Oct28.152443.1589@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> <rich.720344468@pencil> <1992Oct29.094337.19080@walter.bellcore.com>

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From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
Subject: Re: Factoring News
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Keywords: Factoring, Number field sieve
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