Corroboration · RSA records, claims graded since 2026

The Factoring Claims Register

Successor to the RSA Factoring Challenge (1991-2007)

Live graded claim

Daniel J. Bernstein

The recorded claim and the decisive class gate, without a judgment of the claimant.

Source or claimant
Daniel J. Bernstein
Year
2001
Claim class
C2: “I have a fast general factoring algorithm”
Status
open
Evidence mark
verified

Claim summary

Gate applied

Freeze the cost metric and comparison baseline, then test finite RSA sizes with all NFS stages included.

Read the full C2 gate.

Verdict basis

Class status

open

This literal status is the class gate’s evidential verdict. It is not collapsed with the other live statuses and it is not a judgment of the claimant.

As of 26 July 2026.

Provenance labels

These are the record’s plain research-reference labels. They are not links and are never expanded into guessed URLs.

  • census-1:A02

    Plain local provenance label, not a URL.

  • census-1:R02

    Plain local provenance label, not a URL.

  • census-1:A02b

    Plain local provenance label, not a URL.

Cite this dossier

The Factoring Claims Register, classical-a02-bernstein-nfs-circuits, as of 2026-07-26.

@misc{factoring-register-classical-a02-bernstein-nfs-circuits-2026,
  title = {The Factoring Claims Register: Daniel J. Bernstein},
  author = {{The Factoring Claims Register}},
  note = {classical-a02-bernstein-nfs-circuits; as of 2026-07-26}
}

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