Notices of the American Mathematical Society

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Featured Articles and Invitations from the AMS

Linear Systems of Plane Curves

Rick Miranda

The dimension of the space of plane curves vanishing to certain orders at finitely many points is counterintuitive. This article examines what is known toward proving a conjecture from the 1980s about this dimension.

Twenty Years of Attacks on the RSA Cryptosystem

Dan Boneh

The RSA encryption system is used to secure many commercial transactions, including communications on the Internet and ordinary credit card payments. The author gives a number of ways in which slight carelessness in using the system can render it vulnerable.