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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

...and just two weeks later RSA-896 was factored by Stephen A. Weis.

"It does not impact the security of deployed RSA-2048 keys. However, it does demonstrates that RSA-1024 keys are vulnerable to many actors with data center-level fleets of GPUs."

The computation ran over a 10-day period and performed about 30 GPU-years of compute time at Anthropic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA%5Fnumbers#RSA-896