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Re: I can't be the first person to have noticed this, but...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Goldberg)
Tue Dec 19 18:29:07 2000
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
Date: 19 Dec 2000 22:25:29 GMT
Message-ID: <91on8p$9aq$1@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu>
In article <200012181513.JAA29082@gungnir.fnal.gov>,
Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov> wrote:
>> The (now expired) RSA patent number, 4,405,829, is prime.
>
>It would be interesting to suppose they finagled for that, but the
>odds are a fairly decent 1-in-15 or so of it happening by chance.
It of course would have been more interesting if it were the product of
two 12-bit primes. :-)
- Ian
