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Re:Low-Background Steel by philipswood on Sunday July 19, 2020 @02:54AM (#23887541)
A SF short story about a biologically encoded message from ancient aliens (written by one of the Autodesk founders): We'll Return, After This Message by John Walker

https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/sftriple/gpic.

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Re:Low-Background Steel by vmilner on Sunday July 19, 2020 @05:06AM (#23888033)
It's fascinating that in 1983 it was thought that a 768-bit RSA number would take 40 million years to factor. (It actually took 26 - RSA-768 was factored in 2009.)
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Re:Low-Background Steel by ars on Sunday July 19, 2020 @03:49AM (#23887750)
The link seems broken? Should be: https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/sftriple/gpic.html
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