This just appeared in alt.security.pgp. Is there anything to it? I'm dubious.
Gee - Is it April 1st again? Time to troll the newbies in all my favorite newsgroups. On a more serious note, does anyone know what is happening with Arjen Lenstra and RSA-130? Last I heard back in late December, FAFNER, the magic WWW sieving dragon, had collected more than enough relations from participants to yield a factorization. Surely they have not spent an additional four months crunching the big boolean matrix at CWI. This is an important experiment, since it will yield a robust estimate of the time required to break 512 bit PGP keys using the best available factoring software. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd@netcom.com $ via Finger. $