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AI engineer breaks part of RSA encryption protocol by hand

Hacker NewsPublished 6 days ago

Eric Lu, an AI engineer at Cognition, manually factored RSA-260, the largest RSA number ever cracked, by finding its prime factors without apparent AI assistance. This breakthrough challenges assumptions about the difficulty of factoring large RSA numbers that secure modern encryption.

#cognition #cryptography #eric-lu #rsa-260

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