For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up

Re:For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up by jgrahamc on Thursday October 29, 2009 @10:06AM (#910008)

If you use a 512-bit RSA modulus then you are asking for it to be factored. I am in the process of factorizing the 512-bit RSA modulus of a very famous company and will disclose it (responsibly) once it is done. Factorizing keys of that size is doable on high-end consumer hardware with a little patience.

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Re:For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up by Shamiq on Thursday October 29, 2009 @12:39PM (#910300)

How much patience?

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Re:For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up by jgrahamc on Thursday October 29, 2009 @12:40PM (#910303)

A couple of months.

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Re:For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up by paulgb on Thursday October 29, 2009 @02:07PM (#910491)

Out of curiosity, what sort of hardware is typically used for this?

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Re:For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up by ars on Thursday October 29, 2009 @02:23PM (#910522)

CUDA, with high end NVidia video cards.

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Re:For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up by monocasa on Thursday October 29, 2009 @09:04PM (#911294)

Actually, I think he did it on a significantly less powerful system. Just an Athlon64x2 or similar. CUDA could speed it up considerably.

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Re:For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up by jgrahamc on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @05:53AM (#919056)

I am using an 8 core Xeon machine.

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Re:For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up by brown9-2 on Friday October 30, 2009 @08:33AM (#911902)

Doable with how much patience exactly?

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