The RSA 2K operation was supposed to be expected to be solved in about 35 years. Using this 65 now a second per squaring FPGA, we were actually able to solve it in about two months and unlock the secret that had been encoded. Two weeks before we unlocked it, a fellow called Bernard Fabro had unlocked it by using a CPU which he had run for about two and a half years. But we were all there. Did he just time it? No, it's just pure coincidence. Okay.

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