Crown Sterling Claims to Factor RSA Keylengths First Factored Twenty Years Ago

Re:Crown Sterling Claims to Factor RSA Keylengths First Fact... by tialaramex on Friday September 20, 2019 @04:30PM (#21030937)

5% sounds about plausible, anybody inquisitive and capable of say, a numerate degree subject - physics, engineering, anything over in that corner, can follow along in textbook RSA. But the CISO doesn't actually need it for their job.

These sort of people are often closer to delusional than straight scammers, so that's why there's a demo of a thing that doesn't really work - they sincerely think they're onto something, even as they fail to achieve anything significant.

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Re:Crown Sterling Claims to Factor RSA Keylengths First Fact... by nneonneo on Friday September 20, 2019 @04:43PM (#21031095)

I was thinking delusional, but the thing is that their thing does work - it’s just not their work. They repackaged CADO-NFS (a well-respected factoring program) and pretended that they’d invented a new factoring algorithm. It’s actually simple plagiarism.

Now, what I could believe is that there’s a massively deluded guy at the top, and a bunch of underlings who are desperately trying to enact his crazy vision. But it’s pretty hard to ignore the evidence that this is a scam.

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