IP: Israelis Crack RSA 512 Bit in Microseconds

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "Rohan Amin" <rohana () seas upenn edu>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
>
> Dr. Farber,
>
> Have you heard about this?
>
> The Israeli Weizmann Institute has broken RSA 512 bit encryption in, get
> this, 12uS (microseconds). And if that was not enough, it's handheld using a
> mix of quantum and optical computing technology.
>
> http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/09/29/timintint02001. 
> html?1341861
>
>
> Rohan :-)
> Hill College House
> Univ. of Pennsylvania


Any one have some deep info on this one