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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.msdos.djgpp: 2-Sep-100 Re: Anti hacker
game theory. by Damian Yerrick AT hotmail DOT c 
> NSA encoding?  I don't think the United States National Security
> Agency is opening up its tippy-top-secret encryption algorithms.
>  
> Oh, you meant RSA Public Key.  I can't comment on RSA for another few
> weeks, except that right now it's as looked down upon as GIF is.

Yes I mean NSA's security of 15 digit primes.  The held contests to
break this simplistic code, and it took one company 2 years and ungodly
amount of computer power to break the code.

Since the NSA bases ALOT of security on this multiplication of two large
primes, if you can find a way to factor hideously large numbers that
doesn't take a hideous amount of time, you'll be either employed at the
NSA, or be known as a national threat :)

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