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DeepMind: AI agents find 2 weaknesses in legacy RSA-1024; 2048+ remains safe
On 11/06/2026 Google DeepMind announced research in which human-guided AI agents found two major weaknesses in legacy 1024-bit RSA cryptosystems. The lab stresses that modern protocols (almost universally 2048-bit or larger) remain secure. Results: (1) on signature padding — what matters is how much of the block the attacker controls; (2) batch factorization ~30× cheaper per additional key vs prior methods. Papers: Faster Affine Root / 1024-bit Computation and Fan Factories. Collaboration with Nadia Heninger (UCSD/Inria) and Emmanuel Thomé (Inria); led by Dj Dvijotham and Abhradeep Thakurta; article by Pushmeet Kohli. @GoogleDeepMind post ~60.6 thousand views / 833 likes in the measurement.
Published in edition no. 14 of Noticiário do Joãozinho ·
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Google DeepMindPushmeet / DeepMind Science articleFaster Affine Root paperFan Factories paper
https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2118755418675765656