Cryptography that pursues smallness surprisingly becomes brittle first

IntroductionHello everyone. This is Pei from WingArc1st.For a long time, RSA was the mainstream for public-key cryptography ...

50 Years Of RSA: Preparing For The Internet’s Next Cryptographic Transition

RSA succeeded beyond what its creators could have imagined. But as we approach its 50th anniversary, we are also approaching ...
Crypto Briefing

RSA-896 factored with AI assistance, pushing the public record to 896 bits

Stephen Weis factored RSA-896 with Claude AI on Sept 19, 2026, pushing the public factoring record to 896 bits just 16 days after the prior mark ...
Tech Times on MSN

RSA-896 cracked with Claude AI, second factoring record in sixteen days

RSA-896, a 270-digit encryption benchmark, was factored on September 19, 2026, by Anthropic engineer Stephen Weis using Claude AI and 2,048 GPUs -- making it the second AI-assisted integer ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN

Novel attack on RSA cryptography might lower computation requirements for cracking

Not very practical yet, but could serve as the basis for future improvements.
Network World

RSA founders give perspective on cryptography

The famous cryptographers Leonard Adleman, Ronald Rivest, and Adi Shamir – the developers of the RSA encryption code – received the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2002 Turing Award “for their ...
Decrypt

A Clever RSA Attack Fooled a Hardware Vault—Here's What It Means for Crypto

A UC San Diego-led team forged RSA signatures without extracting its key. But Bitcoin and Ethereum sign with a different ...
InfoWorld

Understand the RSA encryption algorithm

Hot on the heels of Diffie-Hellman upending the cryptography applecart in 1976 came three more crypto newcomers that further revolutionized the field: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. The ...
IPWatchdog

A Look at RSA Cryptography and the Seminal Patent that Landed the Inventors in the Hall of Fame

The global market for hardware encryption solutions is expected to reach $413.85 billion by the year 2022 according to market research published by Markets and Markets. This total represents a ...