Latest claim of breaking RSA 2048  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2023, 01:13:18 pm
content: 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.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2023, 01:44:57 pm
content: 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 signedAlphabet, Inc.certificate against your domain. I bet he can't.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2023, 01:52:47 pm
content: 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.

author: ebastler
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2023, 01:55:52 pm
content: Well, he does have a self-published paper available for download from ResearchGate:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374155658_Pathologically_breaking_cryptography_by_quantum_computingHaven'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.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2023, 01:56:19 pm
content: 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.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2023, 01:59:40 pm
content: Quote from: ebastler on November 02, 2023, 01:55:52 pmYes, as well as using a cellphone to do quantum computing

author: ebastler
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2023, 02:00:10 pm
content: Quote from: Bud on November 02, 2023, 01:56:19 pmI guess that's meant in contrast to today's real quantum computers, which are non-commercial, experimental devices.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2023, 02:05:26 pm
content: 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.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2023, 02:07:30 pm
content: Quote from: ebastler on November 02, 2023, 01:55:52 pmThe reference  is just to rsa.com, but the context says "Instead, we showed  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.

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2023, 02:07:52 pm
content: I await quantum computing laptops that need to be kept at cryogenic temperatures.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2023, 02:45:44 pm
content: 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)

author: AndyBeez
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2023, 02:49:02 pm
content: 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.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2023, 02:53:03 pm
content: Some other gems from the guy's creative work:QuoteRepeat 3 times as you go to bed at night

author: CJay
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2023, 06:10:11 pm
content: Quote from: Bud on November 02, 2023, 01:13:18 pmSounds very much like a plot line from a Yahtzee Croshaw book...