{"id":"dd38ae13-e62d-4c9b-af44-888cc1fe1d30","url":"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whats-the-tech-behind-the-record-breaking-rsa-260-crack/","domain":"scientificamerican.com","outlet":{"name":"Scientific American","country":"US","cred":4,"lean":0,"curated":true},"title":"What’s the tech behind the record-breaking RSA-260 crack?","plainHeadline":"Eric Lu factors RSA-260 using 130 digits, the largest cracked so far","rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["Eric Lu posted 130 digits on X and claimed RSA-260 was divided.","RSA numbers are products of two secret primes; factoring undermines encryption.","RSA-260 factoring is the largest such achievement to date, though still small for cryptography.","Lu may have used hand-primal sampling with computer assistance; AI not clearly used.","Experts say RSA remains secure against classical attacks; quantum computing poses longer-term risks."],"topics":[],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-09-04T13:00:00.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-09-04T13:58:55.205Z","story":null}