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Probable Solution Found for ECC2-109 Challenge

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the waiting-for-the-photo-finish dept.

kpearson writes "The eCompute ECC2-109 distributed computing project discovered a probable solution to Certicom's ECC2-109 challenge today. The challenge was to defeat a 109-bit Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem (ECC). Since the eCompute ECC2-109 project began on November 8, 2002, 1,981 volunteers have run the project's software and found almost 40.5 million distinguished points. From those points the project found two which matched and caused a collision, enabling the project to find a solution to the ECC. The solution was submitted to Certicom this morning for verification."

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