Bram Cohen wrote:
>
> I've decided to use the modulus ipsec uses, but I did write a little
> script to find the smallest strong prime which is 3 mod 8 less than 1536,
                     ^^^^^^^^ biggest :-)
> and the little monkey in my computer dutifully plugged away and after a
> hard day's work informed me that 2^1536 - (8 * 187915) + 3 is a strong
> prime. I'm going to give it a banana.
>
> -Bram Cohen
>
> "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
> -- John Maynard Keynes

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