Unruh <unruh-spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (07-04-14 17:02:29):
> > Feel free to make fun of it, but you may ask yourself the question
> > why people spend so much time, money and power for factoring
> > numbers, which nobody uses? ;)
>
> Because people DO use it-- factoring has been im****tant in may ways
> for thousands of years. And if general techniques for factoring are
> found, one of the most popular cryptosystems in the world fails.
> So your comparison is, shall we say, flawed.
You don't find new factoring algorithms. You use existing ones to
factor numbers, which nobody uses. You don't do this to know how long
it takes, because you can roughly estimate it beforehand.
So the scientific value of doing this is pretty near to zero, besides
some knowledge about how well a cluster or grid performs, which you can
as well estimate, too.
I do agree that attacking CryptoSMS is pretty pointless, but not
completely.
Regards,
Ertugrul S=C3=B6ylemez.
--=20
=46rom the fact that this CGI program has been written in Haskell, it
follows naturally that this CGI program is perfectly secure.
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