[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia-X-Files

[Steve Bennett]

On 5/10/06, Matt R <matt_crypto at 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