[Cryptography] Claims of factoring 2048-bit RSA

[Phillip Hallam-Baker]

On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 8:31 PM Amarendra Godbole <
amarendra.godbole at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

Ed Gerk has been around the cryptography world long enough to know that if
you want to show you can break RSA, you publish one of the factors of the
RSA challenge puzzles.

Since he hasn't done that, it is pretty obvious that he hasn't broken RSA
even before we look at the improbable/nonsensical aspects of the claim.
There are no quantum computers running on cell phones, he hasn't published
in the branch of maths that would be relevant to developing a better
factoring algorithm, he has made absurd claims in the past and failed to
support them.
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