Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2010/006

Factorization of a 768-bit RSA modulus

Thorsten Kleinjung and Kazumaro Aoki and Jens Franke and Arjen Lenstra and Emmanuel Thomé and Joppe Bos and Pierrick Gaudry and Alexander Kruppa and Peter Montgomery and Dag Arne Osvik and Herman te Riele and Andrey Timofeev and Paul Zimmermann

Abstract: This paper reports on the factorization of the 768-bit number RSA-768 by the number field sieve factoring method and discusses some implications for RSA.

Category / Keywords: public-key cryptography / RSA, number field sieve

Publication Info: to be submitted

Date: received 6 Jan 2010, last revised 18 Feb 2010

Contact author: akl at epfl ch

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Short URL: ia.cr/2010/006

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