Tuesday, October 13, 2009

3.12, 6.2

1. I'm not sure I follow how the continued fraction method actually yields the factorization of n.

2. The news that RSA had a seemingly obvious weakness was unsettling, and underscores the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration. The author mentions that this class of weaknesses was not considered since the mathematics was well understood, and I would be interested to know the emphasis of the Stanford undergraduate who revealed this weakness. I'm sure he was studying math. I bet he was also studying Computer Science.

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