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by nmadden 2056 days ago
See for example Dan Boneh’s “20 years of attacks on the RSA cryptosystem” [1]. Itself now written 20 years ago and the attacks keep coming.

[1]: http://www.ams.org/notices/199902/boneh.pdf

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tl;dr: "The attacks discovered so far mainly illustrate the pitfalls to be avoided when implementing RSA. At the moment it appears that proper implementations can be trusted to provide security in the digital world." (My own emphasis.)
We’re still waiting to find one of those proper implementations 20 years later.