Monday 24 December 2007

Andrew Odlyzko

Andrew Odlyzko (picture reproduced with kind permission)
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/
is probably mainly known for his contribution to the analysis of Riemann zeros, and the study of discrete logarithms. However, he also helped develop the Lanczos linear algebra stage of the QS (and other sieves), in his paper "Solving large sparse linear systems over finite fields" (1991),
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/140341.html
and has also authored a description of the state of factorization, looking ahead, "The future of integer factorization" (1995)
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/crypto.html

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