Discussion related to cado-nfs

[paul zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>]

       Dear Meng,

> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 22:13:53 +0800 (CST)
> From: meng  <qsmeng@126.com>
> 
> Dear Paul，
>     In cado-nfs2.2,you used method from your paper "better polynomial", 
> where for different skewness, there exist many plolynomials. I obtain new 
> polynomials by one polynomial subtracting another one and  then select the 
> one with smaller leading coefficient.   usually these new polynomials will 
> have smaller lognorm.
>    I just use version 2.2 and the command is cado.py N workdire
>    Best regards,
> Meng

thus I conclude the better polynomial you got for RSA-120 was obtained with a
modified version of cado-nfs. Just curious, what is this polynomial?

Paul