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 ...
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 ...

There’s a new way to break RSA that’s faster than anything we’ve seen before

The world has known for decades that the RSA cryptosystem’s days are numbered. Once quantum computing becomes practical (estimates for that range from 3 to 20 or more years), the foundational security ...

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 ...
techtarget

What is the RSA algorithm?

The RSA algorithm (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) is a public key cryptosystem that uses a pair of keys to secure digital communication and transactions over insecure networks, such as the internet. RSA is a ...
CoinDesk

Quantum Computing Could Break Bitcoin-Like Encryption Far Easier Than Intially Thought, Google Researcher Says

A new study suggests that breaking RSA encryption with quantum computers may require 20 times fewer resources than previously thought. Although Bitcoin uses elliptic curve cryptography, it remains ...

Cryptography: Researchers demonstrate a novel attack on RSA

A new paper reduces the assumed security of 1024-bit RSA by forging signatures. However, the method is hardly relevant in ...
CSOonline

Can a quantum algorithm crack RSA cryptography? Not yet

A recent research paper makes the claim that the RSA cryptographic algorithm can be broken with a quantum algorithm. Skeptics warn: don’t believe everything you read. Every CISO has encryption ...
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 ...
Ars Technica

In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH traffic are vulnerable to complete compromise when naturally ...