On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:21:38AM -0600, Aaron Blosser wrote:
>The types of primes found by GIMPS are so incredibly huge that they would
>have no practical purpose for encryption.
Nope, there is a crypto system using the Mersennes. Look for a link to it
at www.mersenne.org. (It is also mentioned in one of the Mxx press releases
from George... or at least in an article ;-) )
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