"Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
>
> Anyone know anything about this?
It was a Certicom elliptic curve challenge. For details:
http://www.certicom.com/
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> Perry Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Ask not what your country can force other people to do for you..."
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> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 07:03:27 -0400
> From: David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: IP: Record encryption puzzle cracked -- finally
>
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 06:58:52 EDT
> >Subject: Check out ZDNet: News: Record encryption puzzle cracked -- finally
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > <A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2542359,00.html">Click
> > here: ZDNet: News: Record encryption puzzle cracked -- finally</A>
>
> Record encryption puzzle cracked -- finally
>
> The broken encryption method is widely expected to secure
> next-generation wireless devices. But is the break such bad news?
>
> By Robert Lemos, ZDNet News
>
> UPDATED April 14, 2000 7:06 AM PT
>
> An encryption method widely expected to secure next-generation
> wireless phones and other devices succumbed to a brute-force
> collaborative effort to break it, a French research agency announced
> Thursday.
>
> An international team of researchers -- led by crypto researcher
> Robert Harley of the French National Institute for Research in
> Computer Science and Control, or INRIA -- and other computer
> enthusiasts found the 108-bit key to a scrambled message after four
> months of number crunching by 9,500 computers worldwide.
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