<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 8:31 PM Amarendra Godbole <<a href="mailto:amarendra.godbole@gmail.com">amarendra.godbole@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/blogs/researcher-claims-to-crack-rsa-2048-quantum-computer-p-3536" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/blogs/researcher-claims-to-crack-rsa-2048-quantum-computer-p-3536</a><br>
<br>
Of course quantum computer. I am not qualified enough to comment on<br>
this article and its claims, though this group has many people who<br>
are.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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.</div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>