Any volunteers ? (was: Re: [Tutor] Something to tack on to "Useless Python" challenges)

[Pedro Diaz Jimenez]

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Well, you could build a computing module using libgmp in C, and then
build the rest of the app in python using that module. (modRSAchallenge ?). 
Very, very interesting

We could do something ala distributed.net, but in python and focusing on the 
factoring challenge. I would love to work on that project. Any volunteers?. 
Unfortunatly I have exams on june. What about doing that in july/august?
I have cryptographic background, and I'm sure more people on this list have 
too.  

Any volunteers?

Cheers
Pedro

On Sunday 03 June 2001 15:40, Rob Andrews wrote:
> Pedro Diaz Jimenez wrote:
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> > On Sunday 03 June 2001 14:21, Lloyd Hugh Allen wrote:
> > > http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/challenges/factoring/numbers.html
> > >
> > > Python should be up to the task...
> > >
> > > Anyone have a module lying around for torking with arbitrarily large
> > > numbers (in Python)?
> >
> > MPZ module should do the job, but...
> > This is (in my opinion) the type of job not suited python. A C program
> > would do the same job, faster
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Pedro
>
> Almost certainly correct, which would make the Python version pretty
> Useless. But aside from the pure joy of Uselessness, it would be
> interesting to go as far as possible using Python for some of these
> really hairy, advanced tasks. Then we'd have some great examples of
> Python's current limits, and it would be easier for someone to take the
> part already written in Python and code the remainder in C.
>
> Rob

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