[12690] in Cypherpunks
Re: RSA-129
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Istvan Oszaraz von Keszi)
Thu Apr 28 19:24:34 1994
To: warlord@MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 94 17:23:28 MDT
From: "Istvan Oszaraz von Keszi" <vkisosza@acs.ucalgary.ca>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199404270405.AAA02384@charon.MIT.EDU>; from "Derek Atkins" at Apr 27, 94 12:05 am
Derek Atkins wrote:
> We are happy to announce that
>
> RSA-129 = 1143816257578888676692357799761466120102182967212423625625618429\
> 35706935245733897830597123563958705058989075147599290026879543541
> = 3490529510847650949147849619903898133417764638493387843990820577 *
> 32769132993266709549961988190834461413177642967992942539798288533
>
> To find the factorization of RSA-129, we used the double large prime
> variation of the multiple polynomial quadratic sieve factoring method.
> The sieving step took approximately 5000 mips years, and was carried
> out in 8 months by about 600 volunteers from more than 20 countries,
> on all continents except Antarctica. Combining the partial relations
Now let's see, where's my slide rule, let's see 5,000 mips years
at $30,000 /mips = damn, where is that calculator. :-)
> We would like to thank everyone who contributed their time and effort
> to this project. Without your help this would not have been possible.
>
> Derek Atkins
Nahh, couldn't be,
> Michael Graff
> Arjen Lenstra
> Paul Leyland
>
