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Re: RSA-129

Derek Atkins wrote:


> We are happy to announce that
> 
> RSA-129 = 1143816257578888676692357799761466120102182967212423625625618429\
>           35706935245733897830597123563958705058989075147599290026879543541
>         = 3490529510847650949147849619903898133417764638493387843990820577 *
>           32769132993266709549961988190834461413177642967992942539798288533
> 
> To find the factorization of RSA-129, we used the double large prime
> variation of the multiple polynomial quadratic sieve factoring method.
> The sieving step took approximately 5000 mips years, and was carried
> out in 8 months by about 600 volunteers from more than 20 countries,
> on all continents except Antarctica. Combining the partial relations

Now let's see, where's my slide rule, let's see 5,000 mips years
at $30,000 /mips = damn, where is that calculator. :-)

> We would like to thank everyone who contributed their time and effort
> to this project. Without your help this would not have been possible.
> 
> Derek Atkins

Nahh, couldn't be, 

> Michael Graff
> Arjen Lenstra
> Paul Leyland
>