Until now, cryptographers thought factoring was the only way to break RSA. Not anymore.

2 points•jonbaer•4 days ago•2 comments•

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accrual4 days ago
Interesting triplication in the article, I wonder how that got through editing. These are adjacent in the text:

> Privacy Pass is used by both Apple and Cloudflare, among many others.

> An attack on Privacy Pass would require an attacker to request 2^43 tokens from Cloudflare, Apple, or another organization.

> An attack on Privacy Pass would require an attacker to request tokens from Cloudflare, Apple, or another organization 2^43 times.

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