Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-08 Thread Steffen DETTMER
* Stephan V Bechtolsheim wrote on Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 18:20 -0700: This is hardly anything remotely resembling a formal proof, of course. But it should give you the basic idea -- it's a difficult problem because the numbers are big. Your argument only applies to your algorithm. The

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-07 Thread jaze lee
2009/6/7 Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com: On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 09:51:14AM +0800, jaze lee wrote: The problem is we can not find the function yet ? or some other ways to judge a big integer whether it's a prime. Is it so-called mathematics problem that many cipher based on

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-07 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009, jaze lee wrote: That is , n = q*p , we can choose the prime has given bits, but we can not know all that prime in that range.if we want to know the range , we should test it every odd number in that range, or should find a function that can do the job efficiently . The

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-07 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Sun June 7 2009, Victor Duchovni wrote: No proof is known that better algorithms won't come along, but for now state of the-art number theory gives us GNFS. Mathematics is an open-ended field on any subject for which a proof does not exist. Some 'great mind' may come along at any time

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-07 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 07:18:19AM -0500, Michael S. Zick wrote: On Sun June 7 2009, Victor Duchovni wrote: No proof is known that better algorithms won't come along, but for now state of the-art number theory gives us GNFS. Mathematics is an open-ended field on any subject for

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-06 Thread jaze lee
2009/6/6 Rustam Rakhimov rusyas...@gmail.com: So if you are so brave try the example given before. Than you will feel reality. may be you are wright, i try , but i can not get the result. if a integer with m bits and another integer with n bits, if the multiple , there product has m+n bits or

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-06 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Sat June 6 2009, jaze lee wrote: 2009/6/6 Rustam Rakhimov rusyas...@gmail.com: So if you are so brave try the example given before. Than you will feel reality. may be you are wright, i try , but i can not get the result. if a integer with m bits and another integer with n bits, if the

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-06 Thread Rustam Rakhimov
Jaze lee what exactly you can't understand ? -- Best Regards Rustam !!!

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-06 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 03:39:21PM +0800, jaze lee wrote: may be you are wright, i try , but i can not get the result. if a integer with m bits and another integer with n bits, if the multiple , there product has m+n bits or m+n-1 bits. 248911498900030209107 is a 21 bits number, No it is a

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-06 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Sat June 6 2009, jaze lee wrote: i still not understand the problem. although i don''t get the result. Q1: Why is this problem hard - as in: computationally hard ? A1: There are two many number trials (computations) required in a cryptographically hard number. True, for any brute

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-06 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 04:58:24AM -0500, Michael S. Zick wrote: DAQ1: How many integer numbers are there? (an uncountable value) Not uncountable, countably infinite. DAQ2: How many after we throw away all the even ones? (an uncountable value) Ditto. Obviously, this isn't leading to a

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-06 Thread jaze lee
2009/6/6 Michael S. Zick open...@morethan.org: On Sat June 6 2009, jaze lee wrote: i  still not understand the problem. although i don''t get the result. Q1: Why is this problem hard - as in: computationally hard ? A1: There are two many number trials (computations) required in a

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-06 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 09:51:14AM +0800, jaze lee wrote: The problem is we can not find the function yet ? or some other ways to judge a big integer whether it's a prime. Is it so-called mathematics problem that many cipher based on it ? No answer to your questions beyond it's magic, trust

about the integer decomposition

2009-06-05 Thread jaze lee
hello, when i read some books about cryptography, it always go that the cryptography is based on the difficult math problem, for example big integer decomposition, i don't understand it, for if we know that n = p*q , p, q are prime , why it's difficult to get p and q ? i think ,if we know

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-05 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:52:07PM +0800, jaze lee wrote: hello, when i read some books about cryptography, it always go that the cryptography is based on the difficult math problem, for example big integer decomposition, i don't understand it, for if we know that n = p*q , p, q are

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-05 Thread Stephan V Bechtolsheim
. StvB From: Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com To: openssl-users@openssl.org Sent: Friday, June 5, 2009 8:32:29 AM Subject: Re: about the integer decomposition On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:52:07PM +0800, jaze lee wrote: hello, when i read

RE: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-05 Thread David Schwartz
hello, when i read some books about cryptography, it always go that the cryptography is based on the difficult math problem, for example big integer decomposition, i don't understand it, for if we know that n = p*q , p, q are prime , why it's difficult to get p and q ? i think ,if we

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-05 Thread jaze lee
2009/6/6 David Schwartz dav...@webmaster.com: hello,      when  i read some books about cryptography, it always go that the cryptography is based on the difficult math problem, for example big integer decomposition, i don't understand it, for if we know that n = p*q , p, q are prime , why

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-05 Thread Rustam Rakhimov
So if you are so brave try the example given before. Than you will feel reality. - Best Regards Rustam !!!

Re: about the integer decomposition

2009-06-05 Thread Stephan V Bechtolsheim
This is hardly anything remotely resembling a formal proof, of course. But it should give you the basic idea -- it's a difficult problem because the numbers are big. Your argument only applies to your algorithm. The question is whether there exists something else besides a trial / brute force