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Holy Cthulhu, you can crack 512-bit RSA in 73 days on a single computer these days?



On a single ridiculously slow computer. Even the slowest Core 2 Quad would be able to factor 8x faster.


Could you do this for the ipod nano, 2nd generation? I've been wanting to get RockBox on it for years, but the firmware is encrypted!


Now I'm curious. First of all, any random Core Duo could probably put a significant dent in that timeframe if all he had was an Athlon 64. Second, what would the effect of CUDA be on this? It was extremely useful in that MD5 contest earlier.



The engineyard contest? They had CUDA participants iirc.




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