Re: RSA-130 Falls to NFS - Lenstra Posting to sci.crypt.research

[Matts Kallioniemi <matts@pi.se>]

At 09:08 1996-04-16 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:
>> I have been wondering about malicious hackers getting into these
>> pools. would it be possible for them to contribute false data
>> that screws up the end results? or are such anomalies easily
>> discarded or disregarded by the final processes?
>
>    I guess I would have to ask you why you think hackers would be 
>interested in these projects in the first place?  Your typical hacker 
>would care very little about such a project and in fact may be interested 
>in seeing it succeed.  

The hacker might be a Netscape shareholder. A successful cracking of ssl
means that his shares lose value.

Matts