IACR News item: 06 July 2012
Shi Bai, Emmanuel Thom\\\'e, Paul Zimmermann
ePrint Report
We give details of the factorization of RSA-704 with CADO-NFS. This is a record computation with publicly available software tools. The aim of this experiment was to stress CADO-NFS - which was originally designed for 512-bit factorizations - for larger inputs, and to identify possible rooms of improvement.
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