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There's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen before

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Feed Name: Ars Technica Security (category)

Threat Score
50/100

Date Published: 2026-09-24

Date Updated: 2026-09-25

Author: Dan Goodin

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Researchers demonstrated a forgery technique against blind-signature (textbook) RSA using a 'special' number field sieve and an oracle, reducing effective security levels (e.g., to ~2^65 for 1024-bit) and enabling signature forgeries with substantially fewer operations and core-years than full factoring; the attack could affect blind-signature deployments like Privacy Pass if an attacker can request ~2^43 tokens, though PKCS/PSS-padded RSA is not vulnerable and key rotation mitigates the threat.

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