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RSA-576 Factored

Posted by michael on from the long-division dept.

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"

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  1. Worth every hour. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Even though it took us three days to figure it out, to be honored by the RSA feels so good. I want to thank everyone for helping us achieve this!

  2. Factor this! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Second post! w00t!

  3. shit by frogsarefriendly · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
    Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.

  4. Bring on the spam! by lisany · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "plz plz plz plz join my team i wan the money so i can git a d8 4 da prom!"

    Can't wait to see that from the people who have no idea what encryption is for.

  5. Dinosaurs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Will this allow us to clone dinosaurs and place them in a futuristic theme park?

  6. You know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I bet they did this on Gentoo.

    1. Re:You know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Nope. emerge is still running.

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  7. What's the problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    dd: reading `/dev/fd0': Input/output error
    1268+0 records in
    1268+0 records out

    1. Re:What's the problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The problem is you have a bad floppy or a bad floppy disk controller. Might I suggest you have both of them checked for alien microbes? They are known to cause problems this time of year when all the outside is cold and frightful.

  8. They'll Get Sued by Omega1045 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am sure there is some SCO code in the solution. They'll just get sued. Congrats, Defendants!

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  9. Re:Umm..k? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you must be fat.

  10. YOU FAIL IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    omg, is that shit on your face???

  11. MOD PARENT GAY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    see subject, tea bagger.

  12. A HIT OF HELIUM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...psssssshhhhh

    whoo! I feel light-headed

    come on, +5 funny...

  13. dammit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    well that just makes my luggage worthless!

  14. Is this what you're talking about? by Wigfield · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://www.penguinhosting.net/~jpeck/prime/

    Please be kind to my karma...

  15. RSA-576? by sharkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    RU-486 the Next Generation?

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  16. RC5-76, not 576! by arth1 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is a 76-bit key - The same that distributed.net has been going at for a year now. The last one broken was RC5-64.

    Regards,
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  17. Re:michael by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "you're" not "your" see Maddox's hate mail for more details

  18. Is it me, or is this story... by pr0ntab · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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?

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  19. Re:Hmmm. Complexity vs. Cash by mraymer · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    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?

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  20. Quick, call the MPAA! by rock_climbing_guy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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