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NFSNetwork File System
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NFSNutrition and Food Systems (college course)
NFSNear-Field Scanner
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NFSNetwork Forecasting System (Sprint)
NFSNetwork Frame Synchronization
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NFSNuclear Fuel Services Corporation
NFSNon-Fermented Sugar (brewing technology)
NFSNashua Federal Savings and Loan
NFSNeed for Speed: High States (game)
NFSNavigational Filmstrip
NFSNitrogen Fixation Stimulation
NFSNew Frontiers in Organic Syntheses
NFSNuclear Fuels Service
NFSNormalized Flow Sum (network traffic)


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Using a worldwide network of computers and a sophisticated mathematical technique called the Number Field Sieve, Herman te Riele of the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam and his coworkers succeeded in factoring a 155-digit number into two 78-digit primes.
Crunching Internet security codes by Science News
In contrast, the Number Field Sieve factoring technique developed by former Bellcore research scientist Arjen Lenstra and others has, so far, broken RSA implementations using moduli that are 130 digits (i.
Bellcore Media Advisory by Business Wire
Now, Herman te Riele and his coworkers at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam report that they have factored a 186-digit number--the largest yet cracked--using a technique called the special number field sieve (SN: 5/31/97, p.
Factoring reaches new heights by Peterson, Ivars / Science News
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