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Re: Pinoy math enthusiast finds fast way to decode RSA encryption

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Clouse)
Mon Feb 5 18:37:26 2001

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                  BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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Date:         Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:32:51 -0600
Reply-To: Stephen Clouse <stephenc@THEIQGROUP.COM>
From: Stephen Clouse <stephenc@THEIQGROUP.COM>
X-To:         Andre Delafontaine <andre.delafontaine@ECHOSTAR.COM>
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              andre.delafontaine@ECHOSTAR.COM on Mon, Feb 05,
              2001 at 09:01:33AM -0700

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On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:01:33AM -0700, Andre Delafontaine wrote:
> The following link was sent to me this morning.
>
> Has anybody heard about this, gotten any more info?
>
> Is this TRUE? :-)
>
> http://www.mb.com.ph/INFO/2001-02/IT020201.asp

In what may be a sign of the impending apocalypse, Slashdot actually researched
a story.  Short version: the claim is bogus.  The Slashdot story below has a
brief explanation from Rivest, and a link to a much longer email exchange
between Rivest and our would-be cracker on the topic.

http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/05/1911258.shtml

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Stephen Clouse <stephenc@theiqgroup.com>
Senior Programmer
The IQ Group, Inc. <http://www.theiqgroup.com/>

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