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Re:An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thou... by sliken on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:20AM (#18919355)
Actually factorable.net does have code. Planning to analyze the 1200 user keys I have around to see if any are weak. From what I can tell you can just convert public keys into hex and feed them into their program.
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Re:An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thou... by anomalroil on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:34AM (#18919417)
Yes, but it will only batch-factor the 1200 keys you'd be feeding it with. For such factorization attacks to work best, you need a dataset as large as possible.
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