In message <019401bd58dd$b4fe18d0$0a0a0a0a@gateway>, Brian Schousek
<schousek@GEOCITIES.COM> writes
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Nowak <nowak@EARTHLINK.NET>
>To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>Date: Thursday, March 26, 1998 11:20 AM
>Subject: Re: Encryption - OT
><snip>>The problem is to show mathematically how to factor a *very* large
>pseudo
>>prime number into its two prime factors.  This is the part I want to see.
><snip>
>
>what exactly is a pseudo prime number???? :-)


A pseudo-prime number is one generated by an algorithm.

Leon
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