> Factoring RSA Keys With TLS Perfect Forward Secrecy > Florian Weimer > Red Hat Product Security > September 2015 [...] > 3.4.2 > > Accidental factors of a corrupted public key > > We observed one rather peculiar factorization of a > RSA modulus, involving factor 23. What happened > was that the public key in the X.509 certificate was > corrupted in some (there was a bit flip, according to > the server operator), and equation (1) accidentally > revealed the factor 23. Please kindly observe proper citation practice. Phuctor observed, refer to it as such. See also http://trilema.com/2015/on-how-the-factored-4096-rsa-keys-story-was-handled-and-what-it-means-to-you/