[Courses] [security] Crypto Scientists Crack Prime Problem

Sujita Purushothaman sujita at mimos.my
Wed Aug 14 13:13:39 EST 2002


Jacinta Richardson wrote:
<snip>

> PS: Lots of the text of this email was pulled out of a computer science
> essay I had to write last year.  I can provide code or algorithms for all
> theories and am happy to provide such for generating RSA strong primes if
> anyone wants them.
>

Phew! You must be a maths genius.

Now my mind brings up more questions. Esentially the keys are just large,
very large,
prime numbers, right? Then couldn't it be , coincidentally, that someone else

out there is using a the same number that is my key? It is probable , right?
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