[Cryptography] Claims of factoring 2048-bit RSA

[Peter Gutmann]

Amarendra Godbole <amarendra.godbole at gmail.com> writes:

>https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/blogs/researcher-claims-to-crack-rsa-2048-quantum-computer-p-3536
>
>Of course quantum computer. I am not qualified enough to comment on this
>article and its claims, though this group has many people who are.

You don't need to be qualified, you just need to look at this quote from
the article:

  Gerck said all his "QC computations were done in a commercial cellphone, or
  a commercial Linux desktop," at a capital cost of less than $1,000. "No
  cryogenics or special materials were used."

Nothing to see here, move along, move along.

Peter.