The RSA factoring challenges were set up to address these questions. Last year RSA-230 was factored, and this week RSA-240…
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Encryption as secure as factoring
RSA encryption is based on the assumption that factoring large integers is hard. However, it’s possible that breaking RSA is…
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In my previous post, I showed how changing one bit of a semiprime (i. e. the product of two primes)…
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