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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. So... by DarkHelmet · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So... this is a news story, about a news story about something that's already posted on Slashdot.

    Free karma everyone! Let's celebrate! Please link to the posts you choose to plagerize.

    Thank you.

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    1. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yeah... except it took 2 months with 100 work stations to work that very thing out.

      You seem much quicker though.

    2. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      If I link to a post that I copy than I am not plagiarizing. am I?

  2. Re:WARNING, PARENT IS A GOATSE LINK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, SourceForge has went downhill lately :-)

  3. Re:If anyone wants... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can the moderation be modded as funny?

  4. Re:128 bits for symmetric cryptography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, The Netherlands are also known as "Holland" ("hole - land") for the fact that 1/3th of their country lays below the sea-level already .
    (that's one of the reasons you're best off hiring a Dutchman to build your dams, just think back of the Delta project.)
    So flooding it wouldn't be such a "dramatic effort".

  5. m!od down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    exactly what 7Ou've