On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:15:46PM +0000, Brian J. Beesley wrote: > ...matching > residuals mean that the chance of an error getting into the database as a > result of a computational error is of the order of 1 in 10^20.
That's per exponent, isn't it? The chance that one of the roughly quarter million status-doublechecked exponents being in error is about five orders of magnitudes higher. Still acceptible, or at least a minor consern in comparison to the other security issues. > Regards > Brian Beesley Daran G. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
