PrimeGrid
Prime Numbers are of great interest to mathematicians for a variety of reasons. Primes also play a central role in the cryptographic systems which are used for computer security. Through the study of Prime Numbers it can be shown how much processing is required to crack an encryption code and thus to determine whether current security schemes are sufficiently secure.
PrimeGrid is currently running four sub-projects:
- Primegen: generating a public sequential prime number database.
- Twin Prime Search: searching for gigantic twin primes of the form k*2n + 1 and k*2n - 1.
- Cullen-Woodall Search: searching for gigantic primes of forms n*2n + 1 and n*2n - 1.
- Prime Sierpinski Project Sieve: helping Prime Sierpinski Project solve the Prime Sierpinski Problem.