Monday, April 27, 2009

Pollard’s Rho factoring algorithm in C#

Pollard’s rho algorithm is used to factor composite integers. Suppose you have 8633, 89 *97 are the factors.

Here is the code:

static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Int64 a = p.PollardRho(12187823);
        }
        public Int64 customFunct(Int64 param, Int64 mod)//Custom number generator
        {
            return ((param * param + 1 )% mod);
        }
        public Int64 PollardRho(Int64 number)
        {
            Int64 a = 2, b = 2, tmp;//initail starting values
            while(true)
            {
            a = customFunct(a,number);//get first number
            b = customFunct(customFunct(b,number),number);//get second double run custom func
            tmp = GCD(Math.Abs(b-a), number);// if a =  b mod d(divisor one of the divisors of our number) then a-b is multiple of d and number is multiple of d 
            if (tmp > 1)
                break;
            }
            return tmp;
        
        }
        public Int64 GCD(Int64 x, Int64 y)//Greatest Common Divisor
        {
            if (x == 0)//Find it? return
                return y;
            if (y == 0)//Find it? return
                return x;
            x = x % y;// take the mod of the large val to small one if the order is wrong in the next recursive loop it will be correct
            return GCD(y, x);//Parameters changed place
        }

I put comments on the code and included usage.The code includes a custom function you may experiment with and a greatest common divisor calculator.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

What is "p" over there ??

"Int64 a = p.PollardRho(12187823);"