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Some hard info on Adi Shamir's paper.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trei, Peter)
Tue May 4 15:59:07 1999
From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@securitydynamics.com>
To: "'coderpunks@toad.com'" <coderpunks@toad.com>,
"'cryptography@c2.net'" <cryptography@c2.net>,
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Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 14:18:26 -0400
Bob Silverman, who works downstairs from
me, recently posted the following to
sci.crypt.
Peter Trei
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From: Bob Silverman <bobs@rsa.com>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Shamir's Announcement
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 17:42:18 GMT
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I promised a description.
See:
http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/html/twinkle_qa.html
and
http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/html/twinkle.html
Shamir's announcement is for a fast piece of sieving hardware. He
gives a rough spec for a photo-electric sieving device which will sieve
100 to 1000 times faster than a typical PC.
Such devices are NOT new. D.H. Lehmer built a mechanical-optical sieve
in the 1930's.
Shamir's device still requires some sophisticated optical/electrical
engineering to make it a reality. But it does look feasible.
--
Bob Silverman
"You can lead a horse's ass to knowledge, but you can't make him think"
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