Dan Draper

@alwaysunday @supabase

What an epic event! @supabase select was so much fun. Still so honoured to be partnered with this incredible company.

Anthropic just used Claude to break RSA-896 encryption. It was only 16-days after RSA-260 was broken and RSA-1024 is the next target. Should we be concerned? No. In fact, I think it’s a good thing. The breakthrough here was to use GPUs instead of CPUs to find prime factors in parallel. Reducing the time to just 10 days instead of literally decades. Claude didn’t find a new algorithm - it wrote the code to make GNFS (General Number Field Sieves) work in parallel. Seriously impressive but not for the reason that headlines will have you believe. RSA-896 is old and hasn’t been a standard since 2007. If you still use RSA, you likely use 2048 or 4096-bit keys. Are they at risk? At face value, it seems like it’s just a matter of time before RSA of any size will be easily factored. But the jump from 1024 to 2048 is astronomical compared to the one from 260 to 896. Assuming the GPU approach scales, factoring RSA-2048 would take ~510 million years on the same 2048 GPUs used to break RSA-896. RSA-4096 would take 430 quintillion years - or 31 billion times the current age of the universe! Larger RSA keys are perfectly safe from this kind of attack (though the jury is still out on the practicality of quantum attacks any time soon). So, why do I think this is a good thing? It reminds us that most cryptography is about computational advantage. And AI driven results like this push technology providers to ensure they use the current best practices. There’s no hiding anymore - if there’s a weakness, AI will find it, forcing the adoption of better tech. And that’s a good thing!

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@mattallen @emilyscasey

Gears or fuel mixture?

Maybe I should take some inspo from this:

Wow.

This is an unfair question. Hot-or-not for investors is frankly a terrible idea and I’m calling it out. I rate both @airtreevc and @startmate very highly. BOTH have been instrumental to our progress. Not cool @AstralVentures.