encryption

[Rimrock]

While this isn't a distributed.net related question, it does deal with RSA challenges. RSA-576 has been factored, and at one point one of the teams working on it had mentioned that they were going to give RSA-704 or higher a try. Is anyone aware of any new or follow on RSA challenges being run in the distributed computing environment, boinc or otherwise?

[vaughan]

Welcome to the forum Rimrock. To answer your question this is excerpted from the BOINC PrimeGrid (www.primegrid.com) page:

"... PrimeGrid is generating a public number of prime number database and is using it to factorize the number in the RSA Factoring Challenge, ..."

[Brucifer]

PrimeGrid is only windows, uses bittorent tech to distribute stuff, gives you work for a couple projects, has a lot of downtime and uses a lot of memory. Myself, I was hoping for something like the old RSAttack-576 or distributed.net technology.

:cry: