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"

Comments

RSA-576?

[sharkey]

RU-486 the Next Generation?

Is it me, or is this story...

[pr0ntab]

attracting only comments from old troll accounts?

No one knows anything about how you go about factoring huge composite numbers, or can read German, or even knows the difference between breaking RSA-576 and breaking RC5-72.

So all that's left are people trying to find clever ways of linking to the prime number shitting goatse, and a surprising dearth of posts by abandoned troll accounts.

Care to explain?

Re:Hmmm. Complexity vs. Cash

[mraymer]

I've been waiting for a moment when this was slightly on-topic. Has anyone else noticed that Norton flags the official distributed.net client for Windows as a trojan?

Granted, there are some dnet trojans out there, but I think Norton goes a little overboard on this one. I don't see how dnet is less legit than SETI or Folding. Why not call those trojans, too?

Quick, call the MPAA!

[rock_climbing_guy]

Alrighty, let's have Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti sue them for violating the DMCA.