Anyone who wants a good laugh, read the last day in The Side Channel.
We were discussing a hilarious website that claims to be able to crack RSA 2048 with a low-end consumer desktop computer by simulating Shor's algorithm (in Java), and is selling it for $10bn/year! Oh also they cured cancer and can go to Proxima Centauri.
> Simply Put We Make Cyber Weapons Of Global Scale Cyber Warfare. The Term Offensive Security Does Not Do Justice In Describing What We Do. [...] There Are No Hackers Or Any Individuals In What We Offer To Do. We Are Not Script Kiddies And We Do Not Use Tools To Execute Attacks.
And even better:
> "Cyberwarfare is a war that needs to be fought like an integrated war in 5 dimensions" - Founders, Automatski
It all came from a misinformed answer on Crypto.SE:
The Largest Arbitrary RSA Modulo Cracked using a Pure/Undiluted/Reference Implementation of Shor's Algorithm as of 13th Dec 2018 is 2048 bits. RSA-2048 stands cracked. Please see the demo of the implementation which was used in cracking RSA - 2048 https://vimeo.com/306770425
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Does whatever bot sent this think Sec.SE is still in beta? O_o
The Largest Arbitrary RSA Modulo Cracked using a Pure/Undiluted/Reference Implementation of Shor's Algorithm as of 13th Dec 2018 is 2048 bits. RSA-2048 stands cracked. Please see the demo of the implementation which was used in cracking RSA - 2048 https://vimeo.com/306770425
