From: Emil Ong <onge@...>
Date: 2001-07-26T03:53:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18539] RSA Factoring Challenge

Hi,

I saw this RSA Factoring Challenge link on Slashdot this morning and I
thought it would be a really cool Ruby project to write.  If someone could
write up the algorithms, Ruby's bignum support would allow them to leap
ahead in the early stages.  If someone came up with a parallel algorithm,
they could use MPI Ruby (*wink*, *wink*) for the communication.

The challenge website is here:
http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/challenges/factoring/

and MPI Ruby is here:
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpi_ruby/

Charge!
Emil