D. J. Bernstein
Integer factorization
Circuits for integer factorization

News

2001.11.10: ``Circuits for integer factorization: a proposal,'' excerpted from my October 2001 grant proposal.

2002.02.26: ``Factoring breakthrough?'' on slashdot, spawned by a posting to a cryptography mailing list.

2002.03.25: ``1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise?'' on slashdot.

2002.03.27: ``Experts debate risks to crypto'' by Dennis Fisher in eWeek.

2002.04: ``Factoring friction'' by Vin McLellan in Information Security.

2002.06.04: ``Bernstein's NFS analyzed by Lenstra and Shamir'' on slashdot.