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Lessons and Implementation -- RSA Factoring on the Web

We describe the RSA Factoring Problem and the solution developed by Lenstra and collaborators with sieving techniques of increasing power

The Web was used succesfully in the just completed RSA130 factoring -- an almost embarassingly parallel but very non trivial computation

The mathematicians are preparing code for RSA155 factorization and probably Web will be critical here to increase resources from Teraop-hours (RSA129/130) to the needed Teraop-Months (RSA155)

We overview architecture of FAFNER system used and lessons drawn for general Metacomputing administration MetaWeb

http://www.npac.syr.edu/factoring.html

CRPCAnnualMeetingMay96   General Collection of Foils for CRPC Annual 
                          Meeting
Webworkaddons            Additional Material for Web Technology 
                          Presentations July 95 -- March 96
SC95Fafner               Webwork and its application to Factoring on 
                          the Web

Table of Contents for Lessons and Implementation -- RSA Factoring on the Web

   CRPCAnnualMeetingMay96 024 001 RSA Factoring on the Web -- Lessons 
                                  and Implementation
   CRPCAnnualMeetingMay96 025 002 Abstract for RSA Factoring on the 
                                  Web
   CRPCAnnualMeetingMay96 041 003 RSA Factoring on the World-Wide 
                                  Computer 
            Webworkaddons 087 004 Digital Crime(!?) Home Page
            Webworkaddons 088 005 Factoring RSA Codes -- Software 
                                  Resource FAFNER
               SC95Fafner 006 006 RSA:  Public Key Cryptosystem
               SC95Fafner 007 007 How hard is Factoring the Public 
                                  Modulus?
               SC95Fafner 008 008 General Number Field Sieve -- GNFS: 
               SC95Fafner 009 009 Sieving (RSA-129 and MPQS, RSA-130 
                                  and GNFS) 
               SC95Fafner 010 010 BASIC OBSERVATIONS AND TERMS 
               SC95Fafner 011 011 SIEVING THE Q-INTERVAL
               SC95Fafner 012 012 Extracting The Relations
               SC95Fafner 013 013 FIRST Backend Processing STAGE GRAPH
                                   REDUCTION
               SC95Fafner 014 014 SECOND Backend Processing STAGE 
                                  GRAPH REDUCTION
   CRPCAnnualMeetingMay96 042 015 Web Virtual Machine and 
                                  Server-Server Communication Model
   CRPCAnnualMeetingMay96 043 016 Hierarchical FAFNER Servers
   CRPCAnnualMeetingMay96 044 017 Features of FAFNER Server Code 
   CRPCAnnualMeetingMay96 045 018 Features of CLIENT CODE
   CRPCAnnualMeetingMay96 046 019 TECHNICAL CHALLENGES
   CRPCAnnualMeetingMay96 047 020 Social/Administrative CHALLENGES
   CRPCAnnualMeetingMay96 048 021 RSA130 Factorization is completed!
   CRPCAnnualMeetingMay96 049 022 Sieving was done on a great variety 
                                  of workstations at many different 
                                  locations: 

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CRPCAnnualMeetingMay96   General Collection of Foils for CRPC Annual 
                          Meeting

Webworkaddons            Additional Material for Web Technology 
                          Presentations July 95 -- March 96

SC95Fafner               Webwork and its application to Factoring on 
                          the Web

CRPCAnnualMeetingMay96   General Collection of Foils for CRPC Annual 
                          Meeting

Webworkaddons            Additional Material for Web Technology 
                          Presentations July 95 -- March 96

SC95Fafner               Webwork and its application to Factoring on 
                          the Web