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         Dan Bernstein posts:
:Instead he challenges me, saying, ``Dan, why don't you say what your
:estimates are?'' The answer is obvious: *I don't know*. I don't yet have
:reliable estimates, and until somebody factors a 130-digit general
:number, *nobody* will have reliable estimates.
         and also:
:> Define 'wimpy' please for the rest of the audience.
:
:Under 100 digits.

         Well if you actually had a complete GFNS implementation for
general numbers I believe you would obtain more reliable estimates by
performing a whole bunch of "wimpy" factorizations as opposed to a
single factorization of RSA-129.
         You might also have a reliable figure of merit for what con-
stitutes a good polynomial representation.  Extensive searches for
polynomials using different criteria than the ones you will eventually
use to select a polynomial (which you are encouraging people to per-
form) are a waste of computer time (since such searches are inherant-
ly inefficient).
                    James B. Shearer