From: utzoo!decvax!duke!gls
Newsgroups: net.general,net.news
Title: Rivest,Shamir and Adleman Encryption System cracked \?
Article-I.D.: duke.2683
Posted: Sun Oct 24 22:57:13 1982
Received: Mon Oct 25 03:44:38 1982


Subject :Rivest,Shamir and Adleman Encryption System cracked ?
	There was an article(written by Adrian Berry, Daily Telegraph, London)
about the RSA Scheme based on the difficulty of prime factorizing a large numberwas cracked by Dr. Shamir of Weizmann Institute. This news item appeared in the
local Durham Morning Herald(Oct 20,1982,Page 7A). Does anybody(from MIT ?) know
more information about this recent cracking ?
							Thanks
							G. L. Srinivasan
							(..decvax!duke!gls)