Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

• The ANR proposal “CATREL” (in French, “Cribles, Améliorations Théoriques et Résolution Effective du Logarithme discret”) has been one of the eight accepted proposals among 59 submitted to the “programme blanc” in computer science for the year 2012. The ANR-CATREL project is beginning on January 1st, 2013.

• A new (second place) integer factorization record was set using the CADO-NFS software developed by the team, namely the factorization of RSA-704.

• Members of the team received the “Prix La Recherche” 2012 for their work on integer factorization.