i am getting "Bad Authentication" , so i went looking for the official forum to see if others had a problem

there is a thread there

it says

RSA-576 has been factored by the programming team of J. Franke, T. Kleinjung, P. Montgomery, H. te Riele, F. Bahr, D. Leclair, Paul Leyland and R. Wackerbarth. Institutions involved include Bonn University, the Max Planck Institute, the Experimental Mathematics Institute in Essen, CWI, NFSNET, and Microsoft Research. For this development and application of the GNFS algorithm, they will split $10,000.00.
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