We are happy to announce that RSA-129 = 1143816257578888676692357799761466120102182967212423625625618429\ 35706935245733897830597123563958705058989075147599290026879543541 = 3490529510847650949147849619903898133417764638493387843990820577 * 32769132993266709549961988190834461413177642967992942539798288533 The encoded message published was 968696137546220614771409222543558829057599911245743198746951209308162\ 98225145708356931476622883989628013391990551829945157815154 This number came from an RSA encryption of the `secret' message using the public exponent 9007. When decrypted with he `secret' exponent 106698614368578024442868771328920154780709906633937862801226224496631\ 063125911774470873340168597462306553968544513277109053606095 this becomes 200805001301070903002315180419000118050019172105011309190800151919090\ 618010705 Using the decoding scheme 01=A, 02=B, ..., 26=Z, and 00 a space between words, the decoded message reads THE MAGIC WORDS ARE SQUEAMISH OSSIFRAGE To find the factorization of RSA-129, we used the double large prime variation of the multiple polynomial quadratic sieve factoring method. The sieving step took approximately 5000 mips years, and was carried out in 8 months by about 600 volunteers from more than 20 countries, on all continents except Antarctica. Combining the partial relations produced a sparse matrix of 569466 rows and 524338 columns. This matrix was reduced to a dense matrix of 188614 rows and 188160 columns using structured Gaussian elimination. Ordinary Gaussian elimination on this matrix, consisting of 35489610240 bits (4.13 gigabyte), took 45 hours on a 16K MasPar MP-1 massively parallel computer. The first three dependencies all turned out to be `unlucky' and produced the trivial factor RSA-129. The fourth dependency produced the above factorization. We would like to thank everyone who contributed their time and effort to this project. Without your help this would not have been possible. Derek Atkins Michael Graff Arjen Lenstra Paul Leyland -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, G MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) Home page: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/warlord/home_page.html warlord@MIT.EDU PP-ASEL N1NWH PGP key available