Re: Factoring problem solution

From: Larry Hammick (larryhammick_at_OMIT-MEtelus.net)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:25:17 GMT

<jstevh@msn.com> www.crank.net/harris.html
> That means the solution is almost trivially easy,
It's not a solution, but a trivial obfuscation of guesswork.

>and not hard to implement.
True, because you are just guessing at what quadratics to
use and, if they don't work, guessing again. Real sieves use
large tables of polynomials. RSA-576 was factored with
the aid of over half a million quadratic polynomials.

> The belief that factoring was a hard problem had nothing to do with
> mathematical reality, but simply human wants and needs.
And here you are talking about yourself again. You are in serious
condition, Harris, and you know it.