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Foil 103 Near and Future Projects

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
1 A WWW Based Computing Project Undertaken at NPAC - RSA Factoring
2 The progress in factoring is due both to better factoring methods and to more and faster hardware.
3 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).
4 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.
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