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Factoring RSA-260
Cognition · Published · 3 min read · 75 on Hacker News
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- What happened
- Cognition's AI agent Devin factored RSA-260, a 260-digit number, using GPU-optimized lattice sieving at roughly 10x lower cost than previous records.
- Why it matters
- Security teams should monitor this if they manage RSA-1024 systems, which now face estimated $30M factoring costs within reach of well-resourced organizations.
- Watch out
- RSA-2048 remains roughly a billion times harder than RSA-1024 and appears unaffected. The factorization used spare cluster compute and took about $400k in GPU resources.
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