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| | RSA Factoring Challenge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | As RSA Laboratories is a provider of RSA-based products, the challenge is used by them as an incentive for the academic community to attack the core of their solutions — in order to prove its strength. |
 | | The first RSA numbers generated, from RSA-100 to RSA-500, were labeled according to their number of decimal digits; later, however, beginning with RSA-576, binary digits are counted instead. |
 | | The RSA Factoring Challenge is a challenge put forward by RSA Laboratories on March 18, 1991 to encourage research into computational number theory and the practical difficulty of factoring large integers. |
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