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RSA-576 Factored
An anonymous reader writes "I thought Slashdot would have picked this up
several days ago, but apparently not. Although
you still won't see any mention of it on the
RSA challenge site, Mathworld is carrying the news that a team at the German Bundesamt fur Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik submitted a factorization of
RSA-576 on December 3. RSA-576 is the smallest challenge number that RSA Security offers a cash prize for, to the tune of $10,000"
I think I speak for 99% of the population when I say...
"Oh."
GL
How could they *factor* ME without *my* own knowledge?! Somebody call the doctor... -RSA-576
it's so you can read the screen when you look at it over your shoulder with a mirror.
Or my personal favorite....
Double ROT13.
Which incidently, is hereby covered under the DMCA, if you manage to decipher it will be fully procecutable under the fullest extent of the law.
Woop! Woop! Woop! Bush-ism alert! Bush-ism alert!
Perhaps you meant primality?
I know god exists. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
They probably just looked in the back of the book.
No, that was an even problem. Only odd problems are in the back of the book.