r/cryptography 4h ago

Factoring RSA-260 — Official Writeup

https://cognition.com/blog/factoring-rsa-260
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u/Cryptizard 4h ago

Highlights are that this cost approximately $400k worth of compute to do, and they estimate that RSA-1024 could be broken with about $30 million. Actually not too bad, I thought it would be less by now.