RSA Encryption

Google DeepMind turned its AI agents loose on one of the oldest locks in internet security, and the agents came back with two new ways to pick it. The lock is 1024-bit RSA, an encryption standard the industry retired years ago. Your bank account is not in danger. DeepMind AI RSA encryption research was announced Friday, November 6, by Pushmeet Kohli, DeepMind’s vice president of science, in a post on X. Two technical papers back it up. The work was led by Dj Dvijotham and Abhradeep Thakurta, working with outside cryptographers Nadia Heninger of UC San Diego and Inria and Emmanuel Thomé of Inria. Everything ran in a sandbox, against a retired standard chosen precisely because attacking it harms nobody. ...