[Spooks] cryptography and primes

[JMM Moi-Meme Maitre du Monde]

Hi, 

FWIW, I visited the site yesterday evening and put the test sample given on the
right-hand side to factorisation before going to bed.

I woke up this morning and found the result is 

51920810450204744019132202403246112884629925425640897326550851544998255968235697331455544257
=
2158122193002952449690243008233157266924190689
x
24058327474941875553768074062128402939746847713

(Oddly enough, there is much more litterature on numbers factoring and crypto
than on some other similar easy-to-go-one-way-only math problems, like
discreet logarithms in modular arithmetic)

Regards
JMM


On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 01:05:12PM -0500, Dan Malloy wrote:
> 
> Hello Spooks,
>   If you like numbers and cryptography, check out this page on prime numbers and how they make codes more difficult to crack.  I think 007 is a prime number. :-)
> http://www.claymath.org/posters/primes/
> 
> Dan Malloy