@InProceedings{bollobas:LIPIcs.AofA.2018.3, author = {Bollob\'{a}s, B\'{e}la}, title = {{Making Squares - Sieves, Smooth Numbers, Cores and Random Xorsat}}, booktitle = {29th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2018)}, pages = {3:1--3:1}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-078-1}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2018}, volume = {110}, editor = {Fill, James Allen and Ward, Mark Daniel}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2018.3}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-88967}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2018.3}, annote = {Keywords: integer factorization, perfect square, random graph process} }