A World Wide Number Field Sieve Factoring Record: On to 512 Bits
A World Wide Number Field Sieve Factoring Record: On to 512 Bits
James Cowie,B. Dodson,3 Authors,J. Zayer
1996 · DOI: 10.1007/BFb0034863
International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security · 96 Citations
TLDR
A conservative extrapolation to estimate the difficulty of factoring 512-bit numbers is presented and a World Wide Web interface to the sieving program that is developed is discussed to facilitate contributing toThe sieving stage of future large scale factoring efforts.