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RSA-640 Factored

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bigger-better-deal dept.

gslin writes to tell us MathWorld News is reporting that RSA-640 has been factored. F. Bahr, M. Boehm, J. Franke, and T. Kleinjung, memebers of the German Federal Agency for Information Technology Security (BSI) announced they had cracked the 193-digit number last Friday using the General Number Field Sieve. The team purportedly used 80 opteron CPUs and 5 months to achieve victory.

2 of 299 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hmmm. by superpulpsicle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Could Germany's government cash shortage have anything to do with the population decrease crisis. People just aren't having enough kids down there.

  2. Re:Time to turn off the Internet... by TheGSRGuy · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Go for it:

    www.turnofftheinternet.com