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RE: Cringely Gives KnowNow Some Unbelievable Free Press... (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip H. Zakas)
Mon Feb 25 16:01:00 2002
From: "Phillip H. Zakas" <pzakas@toucancapital.com>
To: "'bear'" <bear@sonic.net>
Cc: "'Eugene Leitl'" <Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>,
"'Cryptography List'" <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:25:59 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bear [mailto:bear@sonic.net]
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 2:49 PM
>
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Phillip H. Zakas wrote:
>
> >> >On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
> >> >But at Crypto last August, Dan Bernstein announced a new design
for a
> >> >machine dedicated to NFS using asymptotically fast algorithms and
> >> >optimising memory, CPU power and amount of parallelism to minimize
> >>
> > Bear Responds:
> >> I really want to read this paper; if we don't get to see the
> >> actual mathematics, claims like this look incredibly like
> >> someone is spreading FUD. Is it available anywhere?
> >>
> >
> >The paper is located here: http://cr.yp.to/papers.html
> >I've not evaluated yet but I'm interested in hearing if he received
his
> >grant to try it out.
>
> Holy shit. The math works. Bernstein has found ways of
> using additional hardware to eliminate redundancies and
> inefficiencies which appear in any linear implementation of the
> Number Field Sieve. We just never noticed that they were
> inefficiencies and redundancies because we kept thinking in
> terms of linear implementations. This is probably the biggest
> news in crypto in the last decade. I'm astonished that it
> hasn't been louder.
It does seem doable and for not very much money. Is anyone attending the
Intl. Financial Cryptography Association meeting in Bermuda from March
11-15th? Perhaps we could arrange an informal get-together for this
list.
Phillip
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