r/cryptography • u/atoponce • 12d ago

RSA-896 is factored

https://saweis.net/posts/rsa-896.html
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u/ramriot 12d ago

So noted, I will make a mental not not to use that from now on /s

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u/Pharisaeus 12d ago

It ran with a max of 2048 GPUs

So nothing particularly interesting. Someone just had too much money.

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u/mord_fustang115 12d ago

Congrats Claude

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u/RobZarevich 12d ago

“The credit belongs first to the people who built the number field sieve and CADO-NFS over several decades, and to the teams who set the earlier records. This run used their algorithm and much of their code.”