Researcher uses 379-year-old algorithm to crack crypto keys found in the wild

It takes only a second to crack the handful of weak keys. Are there more out there?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/researcher-uses-600-year-old-algorithm-to-crack-crypto-keys-found-in-the-wild/

See also

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/RSA-Weak-Public-Keys-Available-on-the-Internet-Barbulescu-Stratulat/dcca66a4cc366c7ee2668ab4458e16073ca86718
https://cybermashup.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/amiet-romailler-reaping-keys-final-slides.pdf

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