Fermat's method of factorisation
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24496908FERMAT'S METHOD OF FACTORISATION 97 Fermat's method of factorisation PETER SHIU 1. Introduction On 7 April 1643, Fermat wrote the following intriguing letter (see [1]) to Mersenne: You ask whether the number 100895598169 is prime or not, and for a method to decide, within a day, whether it is prime or composite. To this question I answer that ...
The Fermat factorization method revisited
https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/318.pdfThe Fermat factorization method is an iterative, or linear, search. For an integer N = pq, de Weger’s [4] has shown that the efficiency of the Fermat factorization method is governed by the ratio O(∆2 4n1/2) where ∆ = |p−q| is the prime difference. So, as it was pointed out by de Weger, if ∆ = O(N1/4) then the Fermat
FactHacks: Fermat's factorization method
https://facthacks.cr.yp.to/fermat.htmlFermat's factorization method Fermat's factorization method factors N into p and q very quickly if p and q share half of their leading bits, i.e., if the gap between p and q is below the square root of p.It becomes much slower if p and q share significantly fewer bits.. One can save time in RSA decryption by choosing, e.g., p and q very close to 2^512. Fermat's factorization method shows …
The Fermat factorization method revisited
eprint.iacr.org › 2009 › 318The Fermat factorization method is an iterative, or linear, search. For an integer N = pq, de Weger’s [4] has shown that the efficiency of the Fermat factorization method is governed by the ratio O(∆2 4n1/2) where ∆ = |p−q| is the prime difference. So, as it was pointed out by de Weger, if ∆ = O(N1/4) then the Fermat