RSA cryptography, which is one of the typical public key cryptosystems, is a cryptosystem based on the fact that it is difficult to factor a composite number with a large number of digits into prime ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We propose a probabilistic algorithm for factorization of an integer $N$ with run time $(\exp\sqrt{\log N ...

Vlodymyr teaches at Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany. He can be reached at [email protected]. This article provided courtesy ofDr. Dobb’s Journal. This article describes ...

Prime numbers are all the rage these days. I can tell something’s up when random people start asking me about the randomness of primes—without even knowing that I’m a mathematician! In the past couple ...