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Cryptography

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News3 days ago

Factoring RSA-896 Took 30 GPU-Years and Checking It Took Us 40 Milliseconds

The new public RSA factoring record reportedly burned about 30 GPU-years across 2,048 GPUs in ten days. We copied the two primes out of the announcement and confirmed them on a laptop in roughly 40 milliseconds.

Sep 21, 20267 min

News9 days ago

Signal Is Building Accounts Without Phone Numbers and Only Google Play Can Sell You One

Signal's Android repo has 20 commits building phone number free registration. We read them, and the one that matters wires the whole thing to a Google Play one-time purchase.

Sep 14, 20267 min