Question on PKE

[JMI]

TmC:

You are correct. I mis-read the Keygens display that actually says "525 bit RSA Key", rather than "512 RSA Key" as I reported in my post above. The NFO states: RSA-525 factored in 2 weeks, no patching, no cheating

This is the same claim EDGE made in their releases of their "keygen" for various earlier versions of this same software, going back several months. The ONLY problem is, and the probable cause for my misreading, is there appears to be no public reference to a RSA-525 standard except in their releases related to this software, while there is, indeed, a well known RSA-512 standard for public key encryption.

Even the SHA hash functions, which stands for Secure Hash Algorithm, and its five algorithms, denoted SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512, has no "public" SHA-525 standard. SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 are sometimes collectively referred to as SHA-2. SHA-1 produces a message digest that is 160 bits long; the number in the other four algorithms' names denote the bit length of the digest they produce.

Maybe a member of EDGE is a member here and can enlighten us on what they actually mean by: PROTECTION ....... RSA-525.

Regards,