Re:M(57885161) verified as 48th Mersenne Prime
by superjan on Sunday October 10, 2021 @12:47PM
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RSA cryptography is is based on the assumption that factoring numbers is a hard problem. Isn’t kind of nice to know that there curious people trying their best to see how fast you can actually get?
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Re:M(57885161) verified as 48th Mersenne Prime
by AlexCoventry on Sunday October 10, 2021 @01:04PM
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Primality tests for Mersenne numbers are highly specialized. It's possible that they could advance factorization of general numbers, but extremely unlikely.