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Foil 94 Near and Future Projects

From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
WWW-Based Project Undertaken at NPAC
RSA Factoring Challenge
People are protecting their data and money using 155- digit (i.e., 512-bit) numbers.
WWW-factoring project is the first large scale project that makes use of a new and factoring method - the Number Field Sieve (NFS).
First goal was to factor RSA 130 - ultimate goal to to break a RSA 155.

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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