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#+TITLE:  Fourth report
#+DATE:   2013-12-11
#+AUTHOR: Michele Orru`
#+EMAIL:  maker@tumbolandia.net
#+TODO:   DOING DONE TODO


This fourth week has not got any consistent update. I just reached a working
implementation of Pollard's (p-1) algorithm. I believe it can still be optimied,
yet there are some sources given by Emanuele I have to read/study.

* DONE Complete and test Pollard's (p-1) factorization.
  See 773c479543acda096e83e625124284f for further informations.
* DOING Studying an upper limit for the iterations in Wiener.
  "Twenty Years of Attacks on the RSA Cryptosystem" claims that the algorithms
  is linear, that's jsut about log N iterations; looking at the proof to
  understand why.