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Home / Computers / Computer Science / Distributed Computing / Projects / Prime Numbers and Factoring
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- ECMNET - Project to factor numbers using the elliptic curve method. Client and server software.
www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/records/ecmnet.html
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - Cash prizes for discovery of very large prime numbers through Cooperative Computing Awards program.
www.eff.org/coop-awards
- Generalized Fermat Primes Search - Project provides software to search for primes of a specific form. Coordinated via email.
perso.wanadoo.fr/yves.gallot/primes/index.html
- Mersenne Prime Search - Software for x86 machines running most major operating systems. This project has found the 5 largest known primes.
www.mersenne.org/prime.htm
- MM61 - Attempt at factoring the huge Mersenne number 2^(2^61-1)-1. Software for Windows, DOS and Linux. Work reservation via email.
www.ltkz.demon.co.uk/ar2/mm61.htm
- RSA's Cryptographic Challenges - Monetary prizes for factoring certain large numbers ("RSA Numbers"), as well as breaking RSA and DES encryption schemes; announcements mailing list.
www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/challenges/index.html
- Search for Prime Numbers - Search of the next prime of the form n!+1. Project information, software download, and results.
www.hut.fi/~nkuosa/primeform
- The Prime Pages - Prof. Chris Caldwell's database of virtually every large or otherwise interesting prime number known; includes the 5,000 largest known prime numbers and records for specific types.
www.utm.edu/research/primes
- ZnZ Home Page - Provides software for proving large numbers with no particular form prime. Software download; registration for commercial use; top 20 found primes listed.
www.znz.freesurf.fr
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