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Webwork and its application to Factoring on the Web

Given by Jim Cowie, Geoffrey Fox, Wojtek Furmanski at Supercomputing 95 on December 3-8,95. Foils prepared December 3,95
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This short presentation has some notes on factoring on the Web prepared by Jim Cowie from material from Lenstra and Leyland
Also a summary of key features of Fafner as a World Wide Computing System
Go to http://http.npac.syr.edu/factoring.html for a full description and pointers to other collaboraters and further instructions on how to get your software and get started on breaking the Bank of England
We describe why RSA security status is equivalent to factoring large numbers into two large primes
A very handwavy description is given of the strategy to find factors with the GNFS -- Generalized Number Field Sieve and its predecessors
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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