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From: paul@uiucuxc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: factors of seventy-one ones - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 03:30:51 EST
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uiucuxc!paul    Mar 20 17:16:00 1984

A hardware implementation of the Quadratic Sieve, tuning the algorithm,
and/or moving it to a faster machine could eventually factor the keys
used in the RSA public key crypto-system.  I believe the number factored
has been on a "most-wanted" list for several years.  

         Paul Pomes

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