On 5/10/06, Matt R <matt_crypto(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I've got a feeling that the factorisation of an
RSA number (either [[RSA-200]] or [[RSA-640]], I forget which) was scooped by Wikipedia
last year; or at least, I couldn't find any public announcement that predated it at
the time.
Incidentally, factorisations of challenge numbers are one of those exceedingly rare
occasions where researchers can publish original research on Wikipedia without it being a
problem for us.
Because readers can verify the fact by multiplying the numbers together?
Steve