Comment by ColinWright
4 hours ago
Can you point at some papers or articles that talk about attacks specifically on RSA? I've done a search and have a few references, but I'd be interested to know if you have any particular examples in mind.
I know that factoring (which attacks RSA) is sub-exponential, and I know that implementations of RSA (bad choices of primes, timing attacks, etc) can have weaknesses ... I'm just interested as to whether you have something else in mind.
Thx.
I think you're looking for the large formula at the top here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_number_field_sieve
Reference to a scientific paper is given: https://www.ams.org/notices/199612/pomerance.pdf
That's referring to attacking the factoring problem, which is one method of attacking RSA, and as I said is known to be faster than exponential, but it felt like the comment to which I was replying was talking about something other than just faster factoring.
I know there are other attacks on RSA, I was interested to know if the poster to whom I was replying knew of any others (other than factoring, which is kinda obvious). After all, I said:
> I know that factoring (which attacks RSA) is sub-exponential, ...