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- From: bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman)
- Subject: Re: Oh yeah? Factor this...
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- In article <1993Jan22.004018.2036@csi.uottawa.ca> cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes:
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- :ciphering scheme. There may be some better methods of searching for
- :factor candidates, but there aren't any "silver bullets," or algorithms
- :that can factor numbers in time on O(log N) time. Factoring seems to take
- :O(sqrt N) time, which just don't cut it.
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- Not quite. The best rigorously proved upper bound is
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- exp((1+o(1) sqrt(log N log log N))
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- The Number Field Sieve [on some reasonable unproved assumptions] takes
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- exp( (c + o(1)) (log N)^1/3 (log log N)^2/3)
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- with c ~ 1.91
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- These are both sub-exponential and considerably better than O(sqrt(N)).
- Even the older Pollard Rho, Squfof and FFT-based P-1 achieved
- O(N^1/4), not O(sqrt(N)).
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