I like to know what needs to be encrypted with a key derived from a 13
million digit prime number...

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 2:10 PM
To: cf-community
Subject: Re: Now this is a *REALLY* big number.

Greg Morphis wrote:
> I'm trying to find the importance of knowing a large prime number.. I
> mean seriously, who cares?
> Especially one that's 13 million digits long.. The only place I can
> see it used is on a game show ;)

There is definitely the 'it's there' reason of a lot of discovery!

But it my understanding that these mind blowing large prime numbers play 
some role in many computer encryption security methods.



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