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RSA-896 cracked with Claude AI, second factoring record in sixteen days

RSA-896, a 270-digit encryption benchmark, was factored on September 19, 2026, by Anthropic engineer Stephen Weis using ...
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Claude Helped Factor RSA-896, A 270-Digit Encryption Challenge, Says Anthropic Engineer

AI is continuing to break records in technical fields. An Anthropic engineer says Claude ported a decades-old factoring tool ...
CSOonline

What’s next for encryption if the RSA algorithm is broken?

A recent, yet to be proven paper claiming to have found a way to "destroy the RSA cryptosystem" has cryptographers asking what might replace it. What if a big crack appeared overnight in the ...
American Enterprise Institute

No, RSA Encryption Isn’t Obsolete

RSA is dead, long live RSA! At the end of December 2022, Chinese researchers published a paper claiming that they can crack RSA encryption using current-generation quantum computing. For decades, the ...
CSOonline

Can a quantum algorithm crack RSA cryptography? Not yet

A recent research paper makes the claim that the RSA cryptographic algorithm can be broken with a quantum algorithm. Skeptics warn: don’t believe everything you read. Every CISO has encryption ...