From: Mark Chimley <mchimley@sercoalpha.demon.co.uk>
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
<Walied.Othman@Student.KULeuven.ac.be> 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
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From: Walied Othman <Walied.Othman@Student.KULeuven.ac.be>
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
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From: Walied Othman <Walied.Othman@Student.KULeuven.ac.be>
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
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[Othman has made several of the sources available at this URL: ]
 href="http://ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~triade/Nfs/nfs.html"