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RSA-576 Factorization Officially Announced

Posted by timothy on from the what-google-does-in-its-spare-time dept.

product byproduct writes "RSA Security finally has a news item about the December 2003 factorization of RSA-576. (See earlier Slashdot coverage). We now know what the computational cost was: the 174-digit number was factored "using approximately 100 workstations in a little more than three months"."

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  1. Why waste all the CPU power? by tangent3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's a far easier way to crack the the key