[Cryptography] Super-computer project wanted

Tom Ritter tom at ritter.vg
Thu Jul 16 01:09:51 EDT 2015


On 13 July 2015 at 19:00, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> So, is there anything that could benefit from a few parallel teraflops
> here and there?

RSA1024.

Not the whole thing, but there's been work on the components of the
GNFS, and test-runs to see if those changes are worthwhile when
applied to the polynomial selection or sieving could be helpful.  See
http://mersenneforum.org/forumdisplay.php?s=bf3d96147e60ff4a6196ffebb85a0777&f=97
for examples; and I believe Paul Zimmermann would be to the person to
ask if he has any ideas in the works that could use the flops.

-tom


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