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Re:RSA-260 Factorized by charcircuit on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:00AM (#49573219)
Why not? Claude has already shown it can automate mathematics and it can automate programming and running programs (including renting the servers).
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Re:RSA-260 Factorized by hnaccount_rng on Saturday September 05, 2026 @02:26AM (#49573651)
Because there is nothing not already automated here. RSA will either be cracked because some assumption about prime numbers doesn’t hold or because we throw more and more brute force on it.

And if it were the former it wouldn’t be the “next” in line that would be cracked…

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Re:RSA-260 Factorized by charcircuit on Saturday September 05, 2026 @04:27AM (#49574404)
You don't have to have RSA be broken in order to get a competitive advantage over other people searching. You just need Claud to find software optimization that got overlooked or something from number theory to come up with better candidates to guess.
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Re:RSA-260 Factorized by bawolff on Saturday September 05, 2026 @11:26AM (#49577464)
True, but if that happened, i think that would be the headline, not RSA-260 was factorized.
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