MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

Victor Duchovni Victor.Duchovni at MorganStanley.com
Wed Sep 14 14:06:47 EDT 2005


On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:29:39PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> Taken together, these works have reduced the cost of factoring by many
> orders of magnitude, making it feasible, for example, to factor
> 1024-bit integers within one year at the cost of about US$1M (as
> opposed to the trillions of US$ forecasted previously). This talk will
> survey these results, emphasizing the underlying general ideas.
>                                                                                 
> Joint works with Adi Shamir, Arjen Lenstra, Willi Geiselmann, Rainer
> Steinwandt, Hubert K?pfer, Jim Tomlinson, Wil Kortsmit, Bruce Dodson,
> James Hughes and Paul Leyland.
> 

Is it politically correct to not cite DJB in this context (perhaps
it is since the talk invitation is not the paper, but the ommision
really caught my attention).

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