Huge Cajones Remailer wrote:

Anonymous writes:

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*** London Times, 30/03/1997 ***

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Factoring problem broken:

One of the main systems used by computer privacy programs around the world such as those used on the internet to prevent third parties eavesdropping on credit card transactions has been proven insecure, The RSA algorithm, based on the difficulty of "factoring" large numbers appears to have a weakness, a press release by the IACR (International Association for cryptologic research) reads as follows:

A little early for April Fools'. "Sergei Ripov" indeed.

I did a search through the online edition for anything to do with encryption, RSA, algorithms, etc., and nothing came up for the last few months. Maybe it's in the April 1st edition. -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html