From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 95 18:20:40 PDT
To: don@cs.byu.edu
Subject: Re: Factoring Software (fwd)
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> Just saw this on Usenet, was wondering who knows this guy. Obviously not
> a cpunk or it would have hit the list right away. Not in the mood to run
> code on my account without knowing that I know what it will do.

Gee, Bob moved -- I wonder how long he's been at MathWorks...
Anyways, Bob Silverman is a known Factoring Guy (TM).  He's been
involved in network factoring for a long time.

The software he is distributing, MPQS, is the algorithm that was used
to factor rsa-129.  Although this is probably not the same
implementation that we used then, it probably is pretty much the same.

I've met Bob; he is not a tentacle. ;-)

-derek