On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, William Chops Westfield wrote:

> I thought there was a widely publicized case a couple of years ago where
> someone "broke" a RSA challenge encryption puzzle.  Since this used RSA

  Yep.  As I pointed out before   http://www.rsa.com/
  covers that in detail.

> with many fewer bits that are used in a typical commercial implementation,
> it was viewed as "interesting but of little consequence", since the
> difficulty of the problem goes up exponentially (well, more than linearly)
> with the number of bits in the key...
>
> BillW
>