another algorithm is on the way to obsolete. did not use intel chips for factoring. http://www.crypto-world.com/announcements/rsa640.txt "From: "Jens Franke" Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:53:08 +0100 We have factored RSA640 by GNFS. The factors are 16347336458092538484431338838650908598417836700330\ 92312181110852389333100104508151212118167511579 and 19008712816648221131268515739354139754718967899685\ 15493666638539088027103802104498957191261465571 We did lattice sieving for most special q between 28e7 and 77e7 using factor base bounds of 28e7 on the algebraic side and 15e7 on the rational side. The bounds for large primes were 2^34. This produced 166e7 relations. After removing duplicates 143e7 relations remained. A filter job produced a matrix with 36e6 rows and columns, having 74e8 non-zero entries. This was solved by Block-Lanczos. Sieving has been done on 80 2.2 GHz Opteron CPUs and took 3 months. The matrix step was performed on a cluster of 80 2.2 GHz Opterons connected via a Gigabit network and took about 1.5 months. Calendar time for the factorization (without polynomial selection) was 5 months. More details will be given later. F. Bahr, M. Boehm, J. Franke, T. Kleinjung" __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com All functions of our list can be controlled through the web by logging in at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi You can also unsubscribe by sending email to ncolug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field