Re: RSA Challenges


Sebastian G. wrote:

<snip>

Applying the same method for totally random composites, they could merely
factor about 700 binary digits, that's why their next target is RSA-704.

I would not count on that.


Beside that, RSA closed their challenge *some days before* this announcement.

Sure. But it was an open secret that Kleinjung et.al. were working on
a kilobit SNFS
factorization.

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