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ECC2-109 Winners Certified

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the stamp-of-approval dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The ECC2-109 encryption challenge has now been broken and certified! Certicom announced on Tuesday that the winners, a team from Ars Technica and a member of TeamIMO, will both receive $2500 each for the matching distinguished pairs that has solved the elliptical curve encryption scheme."

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  1. Re:Wow. by LordK3nn3th · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oh, yep! 50,000 PCs (Athlon 3200+s)working together nonstop! Only one week?! What a simple task! Why, I'll just pull out 5 million (chump change, really) and get to work on my 50,000 PCs!

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  2. NSA by j.bellone · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I truely wonder if the NSA has computers capable of breaking such an encryption in a few hours (or minutes?). I doubt so, but we will never know. There was a book about this... Digital Fortress was it? Looked pretty good, I was skimming through it a few weeks back in the book store.

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