The New York Times is reporting that a flaw has been found in RSA. The original paper is here, and it looks like a second team was about to release similar information, so they’ve posted an explanatory blog post, which I recommend. A number of people are understandably concerned. Since I couldn’t find a simple explanation of what happened, I figured I would write one up. public-key encryption Publ
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