From: Mark Chimley Newsgroups: sci.math.research Subject: Re: Number Field Sieve Date: 30 Sep 1998 09:30:01 -0500 In article <360E5D1F.BA08039F@Student.KULeuven.ac.be>, Walied Othman writes >Does anyone know where to find a description/implementation of this >factoring algorithm? >If so, could you also reply to me in private > >Thanks > I asked a similar question a few months ago. The best sources appear to be: Prime Numbers and Computer Methods for Factorization, Hans Riesel, BirkHauser, ISBN 0-9176-3743-5 http://www.mindspring.com/~pate/riesel/chap06.html Eric's Maths Search at http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~eww6n/index.html -- Mark Chimley ============================================================================== From: Walied Othman Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Number field sieve Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 14:54:06 +0200 Found it!! at http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Mark_Manasse/home.html ============================================================================== From: Walied Othman Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Number Field Sieve Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:12:30 +0200 Yet another of those "hard to get" links to desciptions of the number field sieve http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/departments/NW3/NW3_2.html ============================================================================== [Othman has made several of the sources available at this URL: ] href="http://ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~triade/Nfs/nfs.html"