It's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack

[Michael Cardenas]

What was the bit length of the rsa key that they factored?

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:25:51AM -0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
> http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137916
> 
>   "The Neo Project began at the start of this year to try to crack
>    Microsoft's private RSA-576 key by using a distributed computing
>    network.
> 
>    This move followed RSA Security's original RSA-576 Factoring
>    Challenge, posted last July, which offered crackers $10,000 to break
>    the encryption algorithm.
> 
>    After successfully meeting RSA's challenge this week and publishing
>    the factors on the internet, Neo Project announced that it would focus
>    on Microsoft's implementation of the algorithm used for digital rights
>    management in its Xbox console."
> 
> Oh my. 
> 

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