[Security] Breaking RSA Encryption "Without Factoring"! The Full Story of the Groundbreaking Experiment That Successfully Forged 1024-bit RSA Signatures

A new challenge has been thrown at the myth of security surrounding "RSA encryption," the public-key cryptosystem that ...
Scientific American magazine

Was this record-setting encryption crack a fluke—or the new normal?

Early on Thursday morning technical researcher Eric Lu sparked worldwide excitement and confusion by posting a sequence of 130 digits on X (formerly Twitter). The reason for the uproar over some ...
CNET

Prime efforts may boost encryption

RSA, a popular encryption algorithm used in securing Internet commerce, is built on the assumption that when prime numbers–those evenly divisible only by themselves and the number one–are large enough ...
BIOENGINEER

Complex-Number Cryptography Boosts Secure Image Encryption, Study Finds

Digital images now carry some of the most sensitive information in modern life, from medical scans and satellite imagery to ...
Crypto Briefing

RSA-896 factored with AI assistance, pushing the public record to 896 bits

Stephen Weis factored RSA-896 with Claude AI on Sept 19, 2026, pushing the public factoring record to 896 bits just 16 days after the prior mark ...

Why Quantum Computers Can Break Encryption: The Mathematical Assumptions We Thought Were Secure Are Changing

I researched quantum mechanics.Next, I researched quantum computers.And finally, I returned to my initial question.Why do ...