{
  "id": 5564341,
  "title": "What’s the tech behind the record-breaking RSA-260 crack?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/whats-the-tech-behind-the-record-breaking-rsa-260-crack",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-04T13:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Scientific American",
    "slug": "scientific-american",
    "url": "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whats-the-tech-behind-the-record-breaking-rsa-260-crack/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A researcher’s social media post revealing how to break part of a popular encryption protocol has gone viral. But did he really do it with just “good old pencil and paper”?",
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  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}