Near and Future Projects

A WWW Based Computing Project Undertaken at NPAC - RSA Factoring

The progress in factoring is due both to better factoring methods and to more and faster hardware.

The www-factoring project is the first large scale project that makes use of a new and faster factoring method: the Number Field Sieve (NFS).

First goal is to factor a 130-digit number (known as RSA-130, part of the RSA- factoring challenge). After that we go for bigger numbers, with the ultimate goal to evaluate how hard it would be to break a 155-digit number.