On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:28:04 -0500, Chris Walters wrote: > >> I feel very confident saying "no known way" as cracking that > >> puzzle has been the Holy Grail of maths prizes for 40 years and > >> no-one has announced success. Seeing as mathematicians are a vain > >> lot, and the one that accomplishes this feat with be showered with > >> honour and glory for all time (making Einstein look like a child), > >> it's a safe assumption that it hasn't been done yet. > > > > Unless he works for GCHQ/NSA or any other government's security > > services.
> Possible, but not too likely*. RSA keys are based on two very large > prime numbers and their composite. The two primes are hundreds of > digits in length, and are used to generate the cipher (public) key, and > the decipher (secret) key. After which their composite is found and > the two primes are discarded. I know it is extremely unlikely that anyone could crack it. My point was that if someone did crack it, they would not necessarily shout about it. If they worked for the security services, that would not want others to know their encryption was insecure. Britain was selling Enigma machines to their "friends" for decades after it was broken. > While I am sure the NSA has its share of cryptologists, and > cryptographers, I would hazard to say that the Navy has more, and so > probably does the CIA/MI5 (or is it MI6 now?). GCHQ, as mentioned above :) -- Neil Bothwick I am Zaphod of Borg. Now, where's the coolest place to be assimilated...
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