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Re: High Performance Mathematical Sieve

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From: Brian C. Anderson
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1988 07:00
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In article <179@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> hermann@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Michael Hermann) writes:
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>                  High Performance Mathematical Sieve
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>    We're trying to have the cost of  the  fully  configured
>system be something less than $5000 (Cdn.) in cost, and have
>it available by early 1990...
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>    If you know of anyone else who may  be  interested,  but
>was  not  able to read this net posting, we'd appreciate you
>passing this information along to them as well.

There is one very well financed organization that might be extremely
interested in hardware solution of the type you propose, known in the US
as the NSA.  They are, however, quite paranoid about security matters. :-)
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From: castillo@mit-amt (Brian C. Anderson)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,sci.math,comp.arch
Subject: Re: High Performance Mathematical Sieve
Keywords: Diophantine equations, factoring, primes, special purpose hardware.
Message-ID: <3279@mit-amt>
Date: 10 Nov 88 07:00:21 GMT
References: <179@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
Reply-To: castillo@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Brian C. Anderson)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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