ein Beitrag zur Didaktik der Kryptologie

We report on experiments on the time of factorization of semiprimes (i.e., products of two primes) using the systems ''Sage'' and ''CrypTool''. With some exceptions the time grows exponentially with the length of the semiprimes - as expected. Using the quadratic sieve implemented in CrypTool 2, we could factorize the number RSA-100, a 100-decimal-digits semiprime, on our laptop in less than eight and a half hours