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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. 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

  5. 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

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

    What about curing cancer? Try this.

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

    Google cache here.

  8. 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.

  9. 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