Not very practical yet, but could serve as the basis for future improvements.
The technique still takes 1,380 CPU core-years, but that's down from the estimated 500,000 to 1 million CPU core-years it ...
Stephen Weis factored RSA-896 with Claude AI on Sept 19, 2026, pushing the public factoring record to 896 bits just 16 days after the prior mark ...
A new challenge has been thrown at the myth of security surrounding "RSA encryption," the public-key cryptosystem that ...
Even if someone copies your encrypted communications in their entirety at this very moment, they cannot yet read the contents ...
A UCSD and INRIA Nancy team found a way to forge RSA signatures without factoring the key. Hours later, EU regulators warned ...
Picture locking your office door at the end of the day and walking home certain it will hold. Now imagine someone photographs that lock today, planning to cut a working key once better tools exist.
Can predicting energy levels from quantum systems be done efficiently on conventional computers? New results demonstrate this ...
RSA succeeded beyond what its creators could have imagined. But as we approach its 50th anniversary, we are also approaching ...
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In 2026, RSA-260 (862-bit) was factored using classical computers, marking an engineering milestone but no theoretical ...
Eric Lu factored an 862-bit RSA key for $400K using GPUs, putting RSA-1024 cracking costs at $30M and accelerating post-quantum crypto timelines.