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Latest claim of breaking RSA 2048
« on: November 02, 2023, 01:13:18 pm »
Some weirdo PhD guy posted on LinkedIn he's got RSA 2048 broken using a cell phone. Google for Ed Gerck rsa 2048 and follow the link to his LinkedIn profile. Have fun.
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Re: Latest claim of breaking RSA 2048
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2023, 01:44:57 pm »
Er, so the guy claims he's run quantum computer algorithms on an "ordinary cell phone".  That's literally, physically impossible.  Quantum computing isn't a new way of writing code or something stupid like that, it's a physical abstraction of quantum entanglement that allows you to solve certain, very specific problems.  Like prime factorisation, which if scaled up, *could* break RSA (and current-generation elliptic-curve cryptography too).   

Seems and smells like a nutter.  Maybe I'm wrong, but a LinkedIn post is not really where you put these things. Where's the paper?  Where's the proof of concept?  Go on then, create a signed Alphabet, Inc. certificate against your domain.  I bet he can't.
 

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Re: Latest claim of breaking RSA 2048
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2023, 01:52:47 pm »
He offers sending some paper by direct request. Someone has posted in the comments that a paper was indeed received after being requested, and that the paper looked GPT generated containing trivial quantum staff. Someone else posted the paper has a malware. This makes sense, since creating a buzz and having people asking for information is a perfect way to distribute malware.
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Re: Latest claim of breaking RSA 2048
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2023, 01:55:52 pm »
Well, he does have a self-published paper available for download from ResearchGate:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374155658_Pathologically_breaking_cryptography_by_quantum_computing

Haven't read it yet. He claims his breakthrough technology to be "quantum computing without complex numbers".

Edit: Umm, I have read it now, takes about 30 seconds... Nothing there except references to his own earlier work. Not sure I am curious enough to dig deeper.  ???
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Re: Latest claim of breaking RSA 2048
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2023, 01:56:19 pm »
The entire language and lingvo used is weird. "Commercial cellphone and commercial Linux desktop". Really? Are there Non-commercial cell phones or Non-commercial Linux desktops? What is the deal with this shit. Also look at his replies in the comment section. Either the guy was drunk or his account hacked.
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Re: Latest claim of breaking RSA 2048
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2023, 01:59:40 pm »
Haven't read it yet. He claims his breakthrough technology to be "quantum computing without complex numbers".
Yes, as well as using a cellphone to do quantum computing  :-DD
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Re: Latest claim of breaking RSA 2048
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2023, 02:00:10 pm »
The entire language and lingvo used is weird. "Commercial cellphone and commercial Linux desktop". Really? Are there Non-commercial cell phones or Non-commercial Linux desktops? What is the deal with this shit.

I guess that's meant in contrast to today's real quantum computers, which are non-commercial, experimental devices.
 

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Re: Latest claim of breaking RSA 2048
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2023, 02:05:26 pm »
Who in their right mind would use a cellphone for any research involving computation.
And the cherry on top is the claim that keys larger than 2048 are even easier to break than 2048.  :-+
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Re: Latest claim of breaking RSA 2048
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2023, 02:07:30 pm »
Well, he does have a self-published paper available for download from ResearchGate:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374155658_Pathologically_breaking_cryptography_by_quantum_computing

Haven't read it yet. He claims his breakthrough technology to be "quantum computing without complex numbers".

Edit: Umm, I have read it now, takes about 30 seconds... Nothing there except references to his own earlier work. Not sure I am curious enough to dig deeper.  ???

The reference [1] is just to rsa.com, but the context says "Instead, we showed [1] that one needs at least tri-state to represent collective effects [..]".  Also the entire paper is 5 pages long, in 20 point font size.  It is a joke, surely?

If not, I'm sticking with drooling nutter.   :-DD
 

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Re: Latest claim of breaking RSA 2048
« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2023, 02:07:52 pm »
I await quantum computing laptops that need to be kept at cryogenic temperatures.
 

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Re: Latest claim of breaking RSA 2048
« Reply #10 on: November 02, 2023, 02:45:44 pm »
Well, the guy is giving us the bonanza- no copyright no export restrictions process using a cellphone. In his other article he says computation can also be made in human mind  :-+. So we even need no stinking phones. And with all that he is still alive (presumably)
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Re: Latest claim of breaking RSA 2048
« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2023, 02:49:02 pm »
Does this guy also design solar roadways? Free energy compost bins? Wifi ionizing radiation deflectors? It will be the same deluded shitster who thinks a bent paperclip pushed in a USB socket receives every subscription television channels ever broadcast.

 

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Re: Latest claim of breaking RSA 2048
« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2023, 02:53:03 pm »
Some other gems from the guy's creative work:
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... one has +4 quantum properties that one can trust, as archetypes of easy communication to friends and foes, to ignoranti or cognoscenti, and for quantum consciousness. This links quantum computing with continued fractions, and vice-versa.

Repeat 3 times as you go to bed at night   :-+
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Re: Latest claim of breaking RSA 2048
« Reply #13 on: November 02, 2023, 06:10:11 pm »
Some weirdo PhD guy posted on LinkedIn he's got RSA 2048 broken using a cell phone. Google for Ed Gerck rsa 2048 and follow the link to his LinkedIn profile. Have fun.

Sounds very much like a plot line from a Yahtzee Croshaw book...
 


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