RSA encryption secures every corner of the internet, yet its strength rests on a question about prime numbers that has stumped mathematicians for thousands of years. Discover how a classified British ...

Stephen Weis factored RSA-896 with Claude AI on Sept 19, 2026, pushing the public factoring record to 896 bits just 16 days ...

A 270-digit number has been returned to its two prime factorsOn September 19, 2026, researcher Stephen A. Weis, with the ...

Encryption algorithms can be intimidating to approach, what’s with all the math involved. However, once you start digging into them, you can break the math apart into smaller steps, and get a feel of ...

Almost every secure connection on the internet, from a bank’s login page to a messaging app, relies on math problems that an ordinary computer would need centuries to solve by brute force. A ...

A researcher’s social media post revealing how to break part of a popular encryption protocol has gone viral. But did he really do it with just “good old pencil and paper”?

In the last several days, headlines have been plastered all over the internet regarding Chinese researchers using D-Wave quantum computers to hack RSA, AES, and "military-grade encryption." This is ...

When sending your credit card number through a public medium, such as the Internet, your financial credibility may be compromised if the number is not first encrypted. It is impossible to tell who may ...