Fast factoring hardware

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

The paper is filed at    http://psifertex.com/download/twirl.pdf


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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry () piermont com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:13:31 -0500
To: cryptography () wasabisystems com
Subject: Fast factoring hardware


I got the following forwarded along yesterday from someone who'd had
it forwarded along, apparently with reasonable permission along the
chain. The message indicated the paper could be distributed, so I
don't think I'm violating any trusts.

Unfortunately the attached paper (which I'm still reading) is far too
long to email to the whole list, but I'm trying to get a URL for it so
people can download it at will.

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[...]
From: Adi Shamir[...]

I am attaching to this email a new paper coauthored with Eran
Tromer. It describes a new hardware device called TWIRL (The
Weizmann Institute Relation Locator) which is 3-4 orders of
magnitude more efficient than previous designs (including TWINKLE)
in implementing the sieving part of the NFS factoring algorithm.
Based on a detailed design and simulation (but without an actual
implementation), we believe that the NFS sieving step for 1024-bit
RSA keys can be completed in less than a year on a $10M TWIRL machine,
and that the NFS sieving step for 512-bit RSA keys can be completed in
less than 10 minutes on a $10K TWIRL machine.

Please feel free to send copies of the paper to anyone you wish.

Best regards,

Adi Shamir.
[...]
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