New record in the area of prime number decomposition of cryptographically important numbers
Friday, January 8, 2010 - 09:07
in Earth & Climate
An international team of scientists from EPFL (Switzerland), INRIA (France), NTT (Japan), CWI (The Netherlands) and Bonn University (Germany), has obtained the prime factors of the RSA challenge number RSA-768, using the Number Field Sieve. The calculation took less than 2000 core years on modern CPUs.