Hundreds of RSA keys factored

[Andrew Gallagher]

On 04/05/16 23:09, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> There is this scary project listing several hundreds factored pgp/rsa
>> keys: http://trilema.com/2016/the-phuctoring/
> 
> Not scary.  Not all that interesting, either.

Hanno Böck has a fairly comprehensive response here:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/05/7

tl;dr: they're mangled, useless copies of real pubkeys, and mangled keys
will almost always be non-prime.

A

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