Re: ???????? ???Zero to 100???: ChatGPT disputes clogging up the rental system, agents warn of price hikes

 
On 2026-06-21, Richard Kettlewell <[email protected]> wrote:
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> https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/06/12/factoring-short-sleeve-rsa-keys-with->
> publishes a couple of weak RSA public keys, in the form of a
> screenshot. I wanted to have a play to see if I could reproduce pattern
> 1 from a plausible key generation strategy (bugs in key generation are
> professionally relevant to me), and didn???t fancy copy-typing 512-digit
> numbers, so I asked Copilot to do it for me. It identified immediately
> that there were two columns, but struggled with two things: the exact
> boundaries between them, and the zero digits, which I never got it to
> reproduce at all. I spent several iterations pointing out its mistake,
> and each time it generated a response apologizing and stating it would
> be more careful, and then getting output wrong in the essentially the
> same way again. Obviously after a few tries I gave up and copy-typed
> pattern 1 myself: it would all have been much quicker if it had admitted
> from the start that it couldn???t do this task that a child could have
> easily achieved.
 
Surely OCR? Or am I missing something?