[118587] in Cypherpunks
IP: Israelis Crack RSA 512 Bit in Microseconds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Sun Oct 3 18:51:33 1999
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From: David Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
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>From: "Rohan Amin" <rohana@seas.upenn.edu>
>To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
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>Dr. Farber,
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>Have you heard about this?
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>The Israeli Weizmann Institute has broken RSA 512 bit encryption in, get
>this, 12uS (microseconds). And if that was not enough, it's handheld using a
>mix of quantum and optical computing technology.
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>http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/09/29/timintint02001.
>html?1341861
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>Rohan :-)
>Hill College House
>Univ. of Pennsylvania
Any one have some deep info on this one
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