M617 is being factored by the Number Field Sieve (NFS). The sieving started about 3.5 weeks ago is almost finished. It will be many more weeks as the final assignments are finished up and the final stages are complete. Meanwhile, sieving for M619 has started. If you want to participate go to ftp://ftp.netdoor.com/users/acurry/nfs and download the siever for DOS or linux. Source code is available to compile on other platforms. You will need about 20Mb memory free. From the list published May 25, M617 is now on the 'Most' wanted list and M619 is on the 'More' wanted list. See http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ssw/cun/index.html ________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
