17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Just saw this on Usenet, was wondering who knows this guy. Obviously not a cpunk or it would have hit the list right away. Not in the mood to run code on my account without knowing that I know what it will do.
Gee, Bob moved -- I wonder how long he's been at MathWorks... Anyways, Bob Silverman is a known Factoring Guy (TM). He's been involved in network factoring for a long time. The software he is distributing, MPQS, is the algorithm that was used to factor rsa-129. Although this is probably not the same implementation that we used then, it probably is pretty much the same. I've met Bob; he is not a tentacle. ;-) -derek