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https://github.com/judevector/rsa-factoring-challenge

RSA Factoring Challenge in ALX SWE Programme
https://github.com/judevector/rsa-factoring-challenge

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RSA Factoring Challenge in ALX SWE Programme

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# RSA Factoring Challenge

This is an ALX SE Programme Challenge

The RSA Factoring Challenge was a challenge put forward by RSA Laboratories on March 18, 1991 to encourage research into computational number theory and the practical difficulty of factoring large integers and cracking RSA keys used in cryptography 💻

This repo is just an attempt to read in and factorize a file of numbers.

## Description of what each file shows:
* factors - the program to factorize (Usage: time ./factors tests/test00)
* tests/test00 - the file with the numbers

## Environment
* Language: Bash script
* OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS