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Re:4096 RSA key in the strongset factored? by revelation on Sunday May 17, 2015 @01:53PM (#9560937)
Well, it lists the key and says the first factor is 231. If you have a big enough calculator, this is trivial to verify.
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Re:4096 RSA key in the strongset factored? by asciilifeform on Sunday May 17, 2015 @02:06PM (#9561004)
Author of 'phuctor' speaking.

I can only confirm that we have a key, downloaded from an SKS dump, said key purporting to belong to one Mr. Anvin, containing one sub-key being an RSA public key which turned out to be factorable with trivial effort.

Anything else is mere conjecture.

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