Talk:RSA numbers

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[edit] Merger proposal

Other than RSA Factoring Challenge, the content of Category:RSA Factoring Challenge is 54 similar stubs about individual RSA numbers: RSA-100, RSA-1024, RSA-110, RSA-120, RSA-129, RSA-130, RSA-140, RSA-150, RSA-1536, RSA-155, RSA-160, RSA-170, RSA-180, RSA-190, RSA-200, RSA-2048, RSA-210, RSA-220, RSA-230, RSA-232, RSA-240, RSA-250, RSA-260, RSA-270, RSA-280, RSA-290, RSA-300, RSA-309, RSA-310, RSA-320, RSA-330, RSA-340, RSA-350, RSA-360, RSA-370, RSA-380, RSA-390, RSA-400, RSA-410, RSA-420, RSA-430, RSA-440, RSA-450, RSA-460, RSA-470, RSA-480, RSA-490, RSA-500, RSA-576, RSA-617, RSA-640, RSA-704, RSA-768, RSA-896.

The RSA Factoring Challenge ended in 2007 [1] while most of the numbers were still unfactored. Maybe they will be factored anyway when it becomes feasible, but the interest in them now appears limited, and all 54 articles seem likely to remain in Category:Cryptography stubs. I suggest leaving RSA Factoring Challenge as it is and merging all 54 stubs into a new article called RSA numbers. The lead can contain common details and explanations, and each number can then get its own section with same name as the current stub, and basically the same content except redundancies. The stubs can redirect directly to the section about that number. Seeing the numbers together seems more reader friendly to me than 54 stubs with almost the same opening, a decimal expansion, and essentially nothing else for all the unfactored numbers. I also think most of the current stubs (at least all the unfactored numbers) fail Wikipedia:Notability on their own. Schneelocke created most or all the articles and said "I'd not be opposed to a merge" in [2]. I also considered "List of RSA numbers" as name, but in Wikipedia "List of ..." usually implies a list of items with links to other articles (see Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists)). PrimeHunter (talk) 16:50, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

In favor of merge. 54 stubs seems weird, and instead a "list"-like article, merging the above-mentioned numbers, seems a good idea. 212.242.167.26 (talk) 19:06, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

There are no objections after 24 days so I will perform the merger. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:50, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

I have completed the merger and redirected the 54 former articles to the corresponding section. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:52, 11 March 2008 (UTC)