On 5/10/06, Matt R matt_crypto@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