genetic algorithms  tutorial
         genetic algorithms  postscript tutorial
        genetic algorithms 
        Wolfram's cellular atomata 
                                                                                                                             
        web links  Wikipedia ..stream ciphers 
                                                                                                                             
         elonka's site  
                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                             
                 finite fields 1 
                finite fields  wikipedia
                finite fields  planetmath
                                                                                               
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web links  Wikipedia ..stream ciphers 

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 elonka's site  

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 informational entropy  Wikipedia
                 entropy  answers.com
                Entropy and Information Theory  book on the web


  NP Complete   Wikipedia
                 Compendium  of NP optimization problems
                                                                                                                             
                 The Hamiltonian Page  Hamiltonian Cycle and Path problems
                NP Complete  NIST
                 NP hard 
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  breaking DES  using a molecular computer
  breaking DES  in record time of 22 hours (1999)
  comments on DES  and open design

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  cryptanalysis of Knapsack cipher using genetic algorithm

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the great Internet  Mersenne Prime Search  (GIMPS)

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  mathword.wolfram.com...very nice site for Prime numbers 
Primes   and complexity FAQ
      A very nice mathematics site 

      a nice site on primes ...comprehensive
      prime number research, records, news, definitions...
       note on 1996 discovery of Mersenne prime and list of other Mersenne primes
      factoring examples 
RSA Challenge numbers  article  twenty years of attacks on RSA
                                                                                                                             
                 planetmath   quadratic sieve
                                                                                                                             
                Wikipedia quadratic sieve
                                                                                                                             
                Parallel  quadratic sieve using MPI
                                                                                                                             
                 distributed   quadratic sieve
                                                                                                                             
                 quadratic sieve   with grid computing 
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