> Factoring RSA 512 is well within earthy resources as of now.
> Probably modest botnet (for sieving) + good machines for linear
> algebra will factor RSA 512 in moderate time.
>
> The interesting question is: did they some crypto breakthrough?
>
> btw, RSA cancelled their monetary challenges even for >512...
One can factor RSA 512 with less than earthly resources. One friend of mine
back in 2009 was factoring RSA 512 with a single tower machine in about two
weeks. He upgraded the machine in 2011 and could do it in about ten days.
Jon
