Archive for April, 1991

RFC1321 Specifying MD5 Published

Tuesday, April 30th, 1991

RFC1321, specifying the MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, has been published. This successor to MD4 is the latest work by Ron Rivest. It is a 128bit hash.

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RSA-100 Factored

Monday, April 1st, 1991

The number RSA-100 of the RSA Factoring Challenge has been factored by Arjen K. Lenstra {W}.

The factorization is:

RSA-100 = 37975227936943673922808872755445627854565536638199
* 40094690950920881030683735292761468389214899724061

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