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Forget the Superbowl - here comes a giant Mersenne prime, all 17,425,170 digits of it!

by Paul Ducklin on February 7, 2013 | 7 Comments

Forget the Superbowl or the Stanley Cup.

For a real edge-of-the-seat thrill, you can't beat armchair mathematics...

Researchers take another crack at SSL

by Paul Ducklin on February 17, 2012 | 12 Comments
Researchers take another crack at SSL

Just how unique is is your private key?

Is there a chance that someone else, without any malice aforethought, might unexpectedly end up with a key pair that is identical or at least dangerously similar to yours?