On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Zsbán Ambrus <[email protected]> wrote: > The point is, an average home computer can easily test the primality > of any one really huge number in a few moments (and does too when > doing public-key cryptography), ... > The same is true for factorization,
I'm being a bit imprecise here though, because while a usual home computer does do primality tests for public-key cryptography, I do now think it performs prime factorizatoin often. Ambrus ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
