# msieve mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für msieve in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:msieve
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install msieve
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install msieve
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: math/msieve/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#msieve
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ms/msieve/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:msieve
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/msieve>
- **Version:** 1.53
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** C library for factoring large integers
- **Homepage:** <https://sourceforge.net/projects/msieve/>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://sourceforge.net/projects/msieve/>
- **Lizenz:** LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/msieve/msieve/Msieve%20v1.53/msieve153_src.tar.gz>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- msieve (cli)
- msieve (Alias)

## Abhängigkeiten

- gmp

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-04
- Manager-Version: 1.53
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://sourceforge.net/projects/msieve/
- Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
- Info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Msieve is Jason Papadopoulos's public-domain C library and command-line program for integer factorization. Its README frames the project as an effort to understand and optimize modern factoring algorithms, with a self-contained implementation intended to be fast, portable, and simple to use. The library combines trial division and Pollard Rho for small cases, optional GMP-ECM for P-1, P+1, and ECM work, then sieve-based methods for harder inputs.

### Projektgeschichte

Technically, Msieve's niche is high-performance general integer factorization rather than a broad computer-algebra environment. It implements a self-initializing quadratic sieve for ordinary use and includes number-field-sieve code, especially postprocessing, that the author says helped complete large public factorization efforts. Its CLI can factor numbers supplied directly, from files, or as arithmetic expressions, while the library can be embedded by other programs.

### Wie es verwendet wird

In the factoring ecosystem, Msieve sits beside tools such as GGNFS, CADO-NFS, and YAFU. Its README describes using GGNFS for earlier NFS stages and Msieve for later stages on very large problems, and YAFU's build notes document bundling msieve as part of YAFU 3.0. Package-manager records for Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix place it as a specialist science/cryptography utility rather than a general-purpose math suite.

### Quellen

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/msieve>
- <https://github.com/bbuhrow/yafu>
- <https://github.com/radii/msieve>


## Sicherheitshinweise

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- library-like package without higher-risk signals

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** msieve
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - msieve: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ms/msieve/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - msieve: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: math/msieve/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


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- [Scientific computing packages](https://pkg.so/de/scientific-computing-tools/) - Matched scientific computing metadata.
- [primesieve](https://pkg.so/de/brew/primesieve/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, mathematics, number-theory, science.
- [primecount](https://pkg.so/de/brew/primecount/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, mathematics, number-theory, science.
- [pari](https://pkg.so/de/brew/pari/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, mathematics, number-theory, science.
- [msolve](https://pkg.so/de/brew/msolve/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: c-library, cli, mathematics, science.
- [cddlib](https://pkg.so/de/brew/cddlib/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: c-library, cli, mathematics, science.
- [maxima](https://pkg.so/de/brew/maxima/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, mathematics, science.
- [singular](https://pkg.so/de/brew/singular/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, mathematics, science.
- [nauty](https://pkg.so/de/brew/nauty/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, mathematics, science.
- [gmp-ecm](https://pkg.so/de/brew/gmp-ecm/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, factorization, gmp, integer, integer-factorization.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/msieve.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/msieve.yml)


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- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
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- external package-manager database matches
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