[41654] in Cypherpunks
if-comp: Project to make Fact true (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (s1018954@aix2.uottawa.ca)
Tue Oct 17 21:23:26 1995
From: s1018954@aix2.uottawa.ca
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 21:20:37 -0400 (EDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
This is something I got off the Idea Futures computers list.
(The Fact claim is that a 512 bit number will be factored by '97)
I don't know if the following address has been posted here before.
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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 95 13:45:40 PDT
From: Robin Hanson <hanson@hss.caltech.edu>
To: if-comp@merak.com
Subject: if-comp: Project to make Fact true
A team at Bellcore seems to be planning to try and make the claim Fact true.
See this web page, and the forward in particular:
http://kayak.npac.syr.edu:2008/
They plan to use the web to allow lots of machines to easily participate.
They will start with a 130-digit number and work their way up to the
155-digit number required to satisfy the claim.
Will they succeed by the end of '97? A crypto expert friend of mine
claims their chances are 90%. I have bet accordingly.
Robin Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/
818-683-9153 2433 Oswego St., Pasadena, CA 91107 FAX: 818-405-9841
818-395-4289 Div. Hum. & Soc. Sci. 228-77 Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125
