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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Taneli Huuskonen)
Wed Feb 7 12:44:39 2001

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Message-ID:  <200102070906.f1796OA03093@sirppi.helsinki.fi>
Date:         Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:06:24 +0200
Reply-To: Taneli Huuskonen <huuskone@CC.HELSINKI.FI>
From: Taneli Huuskonen <huuskone@CC.HELSINKI.FI>
X-To:         "Lacroix, Robert" <ralacroix@HYDRO.MB.CA>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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              from "Lacroix, Robert" at "Feb 6, 2001 04:42:48 pm"

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"Lacroix, Robert" <ralacroix@HYDRO.MB.CA> writes:

> # This algorithm efficiently solves problems of the form 2^x = aN + 1,
> # using O(log N) storage and O(log N)(log N) time.

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but it should be "O(N) time".  As a factoring
method, this is less efficient than trial division.

Taneli Huuskonen

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