rsa

Researchers found that RSA keys with heavily biased bits (mostly zeros) can be factored quickly using polynomial techniques, affecting keys from CompleteFTP and others. The study identifies hundreds of vulnerable keys and traces the bug to a type mismatch in big-integer code.

This paper tracks how different learning rules (backprop, feedback alignment, predictive coding, STDP) affect the alignment of CNN representations with human fMRI across training. It finds that backprop destroys V1 alignment in one epoch, while local rules preserve it, suggesting a trade-off between building higher-level representations and retaining early visual features.