Posted by Klaus Eisentraut in howto
Since around 2008 I have sporadically contributed to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search project. Recently, I wanted to extend my AWS skills, in particular for EC2 instances which I have never used before. Therefore I set myself the goal to check one Mersenne prime candidate for primality with AWS …
Posted by Klaus Eisentraut in howto
Since around 2008 I have sporadically contributed to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search project.
This project is hunting for Mersenne primes, i.e. primes which can be written as 2^n-1.
Those have an easy primality test and are usually the largest known primes which is kind of cool …
Posted by Klaus Eisentraut in howto
In my last post, I showed how to configure and run a Tor bridge relay on this server. Recently, I read the Tor blog and learned about the #MoreOnionsPorfavor campaign. This blog post describes how I did this for this blog.
First of all, let us talk about how this …