RSA Internet Security BrokenPickering -- RSA, a form of security, used on the Internet, a global network of computers that talk to each other was broken this month. This astounding accomplishment was done by none other than our own Matthew Temblador, a high school student in Ms Tania Ealy's 11th grade class at Pearson Secondary School. Matthew's breaktrough came after several nights of studying the workings behind the security (in RSA, the A stands for algorithm, a sort of mathematical recipe). In his own words "let's face it, Enterprise has been a dissapointment lately, so I've been spending a lot of time on the internet. The problem with RSA is that it is hard to do division on large numbers, so I found a way to do it." Ealy credits Matt's success to his unique combination of being a year ahead in math and a home-grown knowledge of Visual Basic, the programming language of the Internet. His computer program to divide a large number by a smaller one takes the large number one digit at a time and tries to divide it by the smaller number, keeping track of how many times and which numbers don't fit. Ted and Jessie Temblador, Matthew's parents say they have contacted AOL, the American company that runs the Internet. Though they admit there isn't much value in RSA encryption anymore, the fact that it was used by banks means that someone will have to develop a new program. Their suggestion - the perky 16 year old genius who broke the last one. The Tembladors insist that Matt will finish highschool, no matter how much money he is offered. Since his schoolwork is very easy to him, they expect he'll have no trouble working after school and on weekends. As for university, that's up to him, though they do add "CalTech would be silly not to take him right now." |
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