Discussion related to cado-nfs

[Paul Leyland <paul.leyland@gmail.com>]

Another gotcha that perhaps ought to be documented.

After some messing around with multiple invocations of cadofactor.py
various scripts started running.  Then

CRITICAL:root:Server certificate's SHA1 hash
(dee73f5124fee67152551306b9a67d701ca2087e) differs from hash specified
on command line (f74296c9eaf4cba71732839082110e252e0d258a). Aborting.


I had been clearing out the work directory between each run but had
failed to spot the download directory  8-(

Things seem to be working rather better now.  At least, polynomial
selection has begun.


Thought for today: security is that property of a system which prevents
bad things from happening; a common side-effect is that it prevents good
things from happening.

Paul