12 Nov
2014
12 Nov
'14
10:07 p.m.
Factoring RSA 512 is well within earthy resources as of now. Probably modest botnet (for sieving) + good machines for linear algebra will factor RSA 512 in moderate time.
The interesting question is: did they some crypto breakthrough?
btw, RSA cancelled their monetary challenges even for >512...
One can factor RSA 512 with less than earthly resources. One friend of mine back in 2009 was factoring RSA 512 with a single tower machine in about two weeks. He upgraded the machine in 2011 and could do it in about ten days. Jon