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ECCp-109 Solved

Posted by michael on from the sheer-willpower dept.

Daerk writes "ECCp-109 has been solved. A week ago. Now wonder my stats haven't updated. Now what am I going to do till climateprediction.net goes live..."

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  1. OGR 25 by garglblaster · · Score: 5, Informative

    check distributed.net for example!

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    perl -e 'printf("%x!\n",49153)'

  2. What are you going to do? Beat cancer! by Lancer · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here you can donate your CPU cycles to help discover a cure for cancer. If that's not a noble cause, no telling what is.

    I will admit there's some irony in my being a member of the alt.smokers.pipes team for this though :)

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    Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
  3. Why it took a week by 1155 · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the site, they haven't even confirmed if this is true or not..

    "The announcement is being made now, a week later because we had to wait for comfirmation from Certicom that this is the solution. (Which we still haven't gotten, by the way)."

  4. Re:ars by Palos · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is one setup for United Devices, check out slashdot team.

  5. Attack an algorithm that matters! by jlcooke · · Score: 3, Informative

    An MD5 attack can be accomplished in O(2^64) or roughtly 2.5 d.net years.

    RC5-64 was a O(2^63).

    ECC-109 was a O(2^54).

    JLC

  6. Yes, but is Certicom going to pay the reward? by DmitriA · · Score: 5, Informative

    I hear that they are in huge financial trouble and barely have enough money in the bank to last them a couple of months. The last thing they probably want to waste it on is paying for this

  7. Re:What will you do? by nackrm · · Score: 4, Informative

    What about curing cancer? Try this.

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    acm.cs.uwec.edu
  8. Re:What will you do? by cwis42 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google cache here.

  9. Distributed Computing Projects by SparkyTWP · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those who are looking for worthy projects to donate to, here's a good list of what is happening in the field of distributed projects, sorted by subject.

  10. Re:Let's try this instead by Dirtside · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe you should do a little research before spouting off about how there are no useful distributed computing projects out there.

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    "Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased