Amen Rich! Let's see the beef! I sincerely doubt the gestopo has ever
cracked a large key PGP message let alone some college kids...==Mac==

At 08:18 AM 3/26/98 -0800, you wrote:
>I would like to get more data on this one.  Every so often someone claims to
>have cracked RSA but in every case I've heard of the claim was false.
>
>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.
>
>A billion computers working in parallel to do it once is not a crack.  If in
>fact it was accomplished it was either because the primes were
>insufficiently large or the guy was very lucky.
>
>Rich
>