[Cryptography] 1023 nails in the coffin of 1024 RSA...

Philipp Gühring pg at futureware.at
Sat Oct 4 18:56:09 EDT 2014


Hi,

> Edit 2: he claims some guy from Argentina found the same thing 6 years
> ago, and has been trying to show it on cons since then, but no con
> accepted his talk because they wouldn't believe him.

Ok, I think there is a simple solution:

Take OpenSSL, generate a 1024 bit RSA key.
Extract the public key, send it to him.
Ask him to factorize it.
Receive the p and q from him.
Verify whether they are correct.
If they are, please tell us.

Best regards,
Philipp



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