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... an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Jan 20 12:33:47 1998
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 12:31:56 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
From the comic relief department...
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:05:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Nev Dull <nev@bostic.com>
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Subject: ... an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
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The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption]
would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
-- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
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