Factoring Integers Using the Web and the Number Field Sieve
Arjen K. Lenstra · Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) · 1995
This note provides background on the www-factoring project, which was started in the fall of 1995. Factoring a positive integer ri means finding two positive integers u and v such that the product of u and v equals ri, and such that both u a.nd v are greater than 1. Such u and v are called factors (or