Factoring RSA 260
A research team has successfully factored the 260-digit RSA-260 number using autonomous software engineering agents and a high-performance GPU lattice siever. This achievement sets a new record for the RSA Factoring Challenge and highlights the increasing accessibility of large-scale computational research.
Why it matters
The successful factorization of large RSA numbers benchmarks the security of current encryption standards and demonstrates the power of AI-driven research tools.
Over the past few weeks, the Cognition research team and I have been optimizing our job scheduler to better use disaggregated compute. As a proof of concept, and because I’ve enjoyed factoring numbers as a hobby for the past ten years or so, I drove a bevy of Devins to obtain a factorization of RSA-260 . In order to do this, my Devins built the world's highest-performance GPU lattice siever, which enables factoring numbers at 10x lower cost than the previous public state of the art. Here is the factorization:
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