Integer Factoring Utilizing PC Cluster

The integer factoring problem is one of the oldest and important problems and it is considered as hard, i.e., the problem cannot be solved in polynomial time for the worst case, because the security of RSA is heavily dependent on the difficulties of integer factoring. As is well known, hardware technology is progressing rapidly from year to year and it seems that the time is now ripe to factor 1024- bit integers. Recently, there have been many studies that have investigated the possibility of 1024-bit integer factoring.