Researchers Found a New Way to Break RSA that Doesn’t Require Factoring the Key
Researchers demonstrated an oracle-assisted eNFS attack that forges 1,024-bit RSA signatures without factoring the modulus.
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2 articles · newest firstI've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s
Security researcher factored two 512-bit RSA root CA keys from defunct 1990s certificate authority E-Certify using CADO-NFS on a desktop in roughly 30 hours each.
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