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RSA cracked?

10:35:27 am mst / 5 February 2001 found by paul / filed in cryptography / source Manila Bulletin 98 hits / 1 comment / 0 e-mails

A Filipino "mathematics enthusiast" claims to have developed a method of cracking the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adelman) encryption system. Supposedly, using "three simple formulas" will "allow fast decoding of RSA encryption". (Link from Fark.)

The article is suspiciously light on details.

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RSA cracked (NOT) by MysteriousStranger 12:56:31 pm mst / 5 February 2001 / # 1

http://www.seedmuse.com/rsa_edit.htm ...wherein correspondence between Ron Rivest and the fellow who discovered the "crack" reduces the proportions of the event to a fart in a windstorm. We will have to wait for quantum computers to ruin RSA. And you can bet they will do so within 5 years. :)