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Re: Factoring Software (fwd)
> Just saw this on Usenet, was wondering who knows this guy. Obviously not
> a cpunk or it would have hit the list right away. Not in the mood to run
> code on my account without knowing that I know what it will do.
Gee, Bob moved -- I wonder how long he's been at MathWorks...
Anyways, Bob Silverman is a known Factoring Guy (TM). He's been
involved in network factoring for a long time.
The software he is distributing, MPQS, is the algorithm that was used
to factor rsa-129. Although this is probably not the same
implementation that we used then, it probably is pretty much the same.
I've met Bob; he is not a tentacle. ;-)
-derek