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The design of special purpose hardware are to factor large integers

✍ Scribed by Ron Poet


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1985
Tongue
English
Weight
526 KB
Volume
37
Category
Article
ISSN
0010-4655

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✦ Synopsis


The continued fraction algorithm for factoring large integers is modified to include as much parallelism as possible. Parallel processing can be introduced in three ways, one of which produces a constant speed up factor, and the other two improve the asymptotic performance of the algorithm with only a modest growth in the number of processors required. It is estimated that with current VLSI technology, a special purpose computer can be built to factor 100 digit numbers, and that this can be increased to 140 digits as silicon technology is taken to its limit. Implications for the RSA public key cryptosystem are discussed.


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