On Tuesday, Mar 11, 2003, at 11:28 US/Eastern, tom st denis wrote:
--- Tero Kivinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:0xffffffffffffffffc90fdaa22168c234c4c6628b80dc1cd129024e088a67cc74020bb ea63b139b22514a08798e3404ddef9519b3cd3a439dffffffffffffffffSOPHIE GERMAIN PRIME SEARCH FIXED 64 bits. INDEX 0: PRIME (bits 512), index = 131, 0.989151 seconds:
What is the benefit of having leading/trailing bits fixed? As far as I know it doesn't make any form of index calculus attack any harder to apply.
Performance.
See RFC 2412, Appendix E.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2412.txt
-J
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