Sec 6.5 due May 5th

What was difficult?

The section was short and sweet and nothing really difficult to understand about it. I dont really how they factored it using the idea of large primes and small primes. Or what the whole deal with the matrix was to try to factor n.

Reflections

I remember reading about the RSA challenge when I got a job as an intern in a trust systems lab. I remember downloading a program that would try to help factor problems in the RSA challenge during the computers down time as mentioned in the book. Its funny how it took 1600 computers 7 months to obtain a matrix and then another 57 hours to find the factors of n.