Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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?
Yes, or at least some can ;-)
-- Matt