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Zofc	Jul 23 2007, 01:44 PM
Just registered Posts: 10 Group: Members Member #352 Joined: December 24, 2006	The reason I'm putting this in the debate section is because I can't tell if any of this is true or not. I know that someone on this site can shed some light on it for me. I don't ever use RSA. The only time I would use it is while using WinSPC 3 for uploading data to my websites. And that program uses it for me. I'm a big fan of cracking by hand. While I'm a big computer nerd, I get great satisfaction out of cracking a Vigenere or homophonic or some other complicated cipher all by paper and pencil. So my first question is, are the following links I'm about to post cracked by hand or computer (or both, speaking mathematically)? Second question, is any of this true or is it just misleading me? Now I hate posting a bunch of links because I don't like sending people around on other websites, but this is really important to me so I have to. www.math.rutgers.edu/~greenfie/gs2004/pdfstuff/breakRSA.pdf -pdf explaining how to break a RSA without knowing Freddy or Emily (key holder one and two). http://members.tripod.com/irish_ronan/rsa/ -Story of when it was breaked and how and yadda yadda history. But it's the most in depth. http://members.tripod.com/irish_ronan/rsa/ -The second in depth and still good. And this was also an interesting find: "RSA Challenges - There are a number of modern computer-based challenges, including several factoring challenges from RSA Labs that have implications for the strength of public-key systems, and some equivalently difficult elliptic curve challenges, also relating to public-key cracking (click here for Bruce Schneier's high-math analysis of the RSA/Elliptic Curve debate). As of this writing, the most recently-cracked RSA Challenge was in November 2005, when RSA-640, a 193-digit number, was successfully factored (which won a $20,000 prize). There are several more on the list, with prizes up to $200,000, which have not yet been cracked. Many fly-by-night snake-oil crypto companies also put out challenges that are arguably famous because the media sometimes pick up the challenge uncritically, but they are usually not worth mentioning on this list."
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