Cognition factors RSA-260 for roughly $400,000 using GPUs
AI Summary- Eric Lu of Cognition factored the 862-bit RSA-260 challenge number using GPU-accelerated methods.
- The factoring effort cost roughly $400,000, while RSA-1024 factoring is projected at around $30 million.
- RSA-2048 remains in widespread use and secure against current classical attacks and known quantum approaches.