... My understanding is that switching users is a capability that is only really useful for Windows XP Home. In a true multi-user environment the switching...
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Jason Papadopoulos
jasonp@...
Mar 10, 2008 7:24 pm
... I suspect nobody is going to do this work until other more critical things happen in the GGNFS codebase. In fact, I'm not entirely sure anyone besides me...
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Jason Papadopoulos
jasonp@...
Mar 11, 2008 3:24 am
Raman, Please stop reflecting my mail messages to the GGNFS mailing list. If you want to include them in an email thread just put the address in the CC line. ...
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bellerophonsoldier
bellerophons...
Mar 19, 2008 6:43 am
Hello, I've been reading the source of the sqrt program, in the file montgomery_sqrt.c. However, I got stuck at a small description at line 1003-1007 which...
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Roland PJ
rolandpj
Mar 23, 2008 6:35 am
Hi, I'm returning to using GGNFS after some time. Checked out SVN version 311, compiled OK and am running tst250.n. I notice that after the first sieving round...
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Jason Papadopoulos
jasonp@...
Mar 23, 2008 4:09 pm
... This seems to be a common misconception. procrels does not remove singletons, it removes relations that have been previously found. Having duplicates in...
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daniel_aac
Mar 31, 2008 6:54 am
Hello, I have a version of the web http://www.math.ttu.edu/~cmonico/software/ggnfs/devel/ggnfs-0.77.0.tar.gz, but it is very difficult to understand it, I ask...
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Jason Papadopoulos
jasonp@...
Mar 31, 2008 1:58 pm
... You can also look at msieve (www.boo.net/~jasonp/qs.html), which is pretty much equally complicated. The simplest GNFS implementation you will be able to...
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Serge Batalov
batalovs
Jun 11, 2008 2:46 pm
A leak in pol51opt is in pol5/roots.c: line 184. The easiest fix is to add a single line free(assess_optima); in the last line of murphy_en(), after "*me=e;"...
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Mark Rodenkirch
mgrogue
Jun 24, 2008 9:53 pm
I've been running a GGNFS factorization on a C133 for about two weeks on PPC. It seems to me that it is stuck in a look of some sort. It sieves, then after...
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gchil0
Jun 25, 2008 6:19 pm
msieve's guess of the number of relations it still needs isn't good. Are the total number of unique relations increasing on each run? How many unique...
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Mark Rodenkirch
mgrogue
Jun 25, 2008 9:10 pm
Yes. It is increasing. There are currently around 6.5m unique relations. FYI, here is the job file: n: ...
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Bob Backstrom
bobb7772004
Jun 26, 2008 1:38 am
... 2 cents worth: Change rlim and alim to, say, 7000000 or even 8000000 in the poly file and let it dump and reload. You will find an immediate jump of...
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gchil0
Jun 26, 2008 2:10 am
... msieve stores the relations in a simple text file, so there is no more dump and reload. Although, honestly, I'm not sure what'll happen if you try to do...
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Mark Rodenkirch
mgrogue
Jun 27, 2008 3:07 am
I changed my job file. We'll see what happens... The def-par.txt in the ggnfs distribution doesn't have defaults for GNFS factorizations over 126 digits....
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Jo Yeong Uk
greatpsycho
Jun 28, 2008 10:05 am
... for ... def- ... This parameters may help for GNFS around 120~140digits. gnfs,122,5,65,2000,1.0e- ...
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Mark Rodenkirch
mgrogue
Jul 1, 2008 10:32 pm
I have been trying to factor a 133 digit composite for a couple of weeks and ran into a problem in ggnfs-lasieve. It appears to be stuck in a loop in redu2.c...
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gchil0
Jul 2, 2008 12:38 am
I've seen this a couple of times. Very annoying! I saved the files somewhere to track it down later, but never did. I not sure I still have those files...
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Mark Rodenkirch
mgrogue
Jul 2, 2008 12:59 am
I have zipped up the directory. It is about 600 MB if anyone has the skill to track this down....
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Sander Hoogendoorn
sander3005
Jul 2, 2008 6:26 pm
... I regularly have the siever / perl script get stuck on some special q's. Just increase the special q in the .job file with a couple of thousand and...
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Mark Rodenkirch
mgrogue
Jul 3, 2008 11:16 am
That got me past this roadblock. Hopefully someone will find and solve this problem....
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complexdancer
Jul 4, 2008 5:30 pm
Hello! Could anyone help me with building 64-bit executable for Windows? I don't currently have required environment to build it myself, so your help is much...
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Antonio Sanches
tzro47
Jul 17, 2008 1:42 pm
Dear friends, I would like to ask if there is any possibility to help with factorization of 512 bits number. I am trying to find somebody who could help me...
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Jason Papadopoulos
jasonp@...
Jul 17, 2008 8:20 pm
... While it's feasible for a single person to manage a job like this, it still is going to be a lot of work. If you have about a dozen fast machines you...
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Mark Rodenkirch
mgrogue
Jul 27, 2008 3:38 pm
Is there anybody currently working on any changes to ggnfs? It would be nice if ggnfs would set the priority of its processes to something less than "normal"....
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Jason Papadopoulos
jasonp@...
Jul 27, 2008 9:30 pm
... I can add an option to msieve that switches to idle priority, but I don't want to make it mandatory because many users run other things in the background....
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Antonio Sanches
tzro47
Jul 30, 2008 12:52 pm
Hello Jason, thanks for your help. I am quite far with the factorization. Sieving is now running on several Core 2 Quad machines, with several tens milions...
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Jason Papadopoulos
jasonp@...
Jul 30, 2008 2:31 pm
... The postprocessing for 512-bit RSA is entirely feasible with current tools. Depending on how much you oversieve, it shouldn't take more than a few days....
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Antonio Sanches
tzro47
Aug 9, 2008 3:32 pm
Hello Jason, thanks for your help. I am quite far with the factorization. Sieving is now running on several Core 2 Quad machines, with several tens milions...
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John Cheng
john5788
Aug 15, 2008 11:21 am
Hello, I have previously been able to compile ggnfs on my 32bit Pentium 4, but now I just recently built a new Intel Core 2 machine and it won't compile. How...
