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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.

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  1. What if... by nxtr · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What if there's a team that started with a slightly slower machine before them and they only needed a few more days to complete the factoring?