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From: bert@netcom.com (Roberto Sierra)
Subject: Re: RSA129 factoring attack -- participants needed
Message-ID: <bertCDqzBF.EvL@netcom.com>
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Organization: Tempered MicroDesigns
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References: <FAHN.93Sep21154626@chirality.rsa.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 08:52:27 GMT
Lines: 36
: In article <explorer.748591928@tbird.cc.iastate.edu> explorer@iastate.edu (Michael Graff) writes:
: > In 1977, a 129-digit integer appeared in the pages of Scientific American.
: > This number, the RSA challenge modulus or RSA-129, has not yet been
: > successfully factored. Factoring it, a 425-bit number, would be a major
: > milestone in cryptography, as it would show that current technology is able to
: > break commonly-used RSA-cryptosystem keys within a reasonable time.
FYI --
I set this up to run on the Sun system here and caught a little typo
in the makefile (the current version on the FTP server has been fixed,
so I'm told). If you have a Sun4 running SunOS and have the older code
and not the fixed version, change the section of the Makefile that reads
# Sun-4 with assembler speed-up
S4a_mpqs: sparc-sunos.s mpqs.c lip.c
$(MAKE) all CC=gcc CFLAGS="-O -DCONTRIBUTION_8" ASMFLAGS="-P -DFPU"\
OBJS="mpqs.o lip.o sparc-sunos.o" FILE=made_S4a_mpqs
to
# Sun-4 with assembler speed-up
S4a_mpqs: sparc-sunos.s mpqs.c lip.c
$(MAKE) all CC=gcc CFLAGS="-O -DCONTRIBUTION_8" ASMFLAGS="-P -DFPU" \
OBJS="mpqs.o lip.o sparc-sunos.o" FILE=made_S4a_mpqs
[the only difference is the insertion of a space before the \ character]
Otherwise gcc will fail to link the code properly.
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