New GPL’d Implementation of GNFS
Dr. Christopher Monico, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University, has released the GPL’d source code to an implementation of the General Number Field Sieve. The code is only able to handle semi-primes of about 120 digits at this time. However, it is possible that this code will gain a good deal of attention and see the kind of improvement need to make it a threat to smaller PGP keys over the next few years. The primary issues with the code at this time are memory management and multi/distributed processing capabilities.