RSA-260 Factor Tweet Draws Congrats From 1999 RSA-155 Team Within 2 Hours
marvinvonhagen · x · 2026-09-04
Marvin von Hagen shares a delightful moment: within 2 hours of tweeting an RSA-260 factor, a researcher from the team that factored RSA-155 back in 1999 showed up in the replies to congratulate him — a nod to Twitter as the medium where intelligence systems across generations interact.
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