[1855] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Certicom offers crypto contest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Chiapsuio)
Tue Nov 18 00:04:16 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:24:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Chiapsuio <chipper@llamas.net>
To: William Knowles <erehwon@dis.org>
cc: cryptography@c2.net, DC-Stuff <dc-stuff@dis.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971117155156.1235F-100000@kizmiaz.dis.org>
The new Certicom challanges haven't been tackled by us yet, but you can
find an ongoing effort to crack the RSA RC5-64 (RC5-32/12/8) with the use
of massive, voluntary distributed computing. Distributed clients are
being developed to be modular to afford flexibilty that will allow
multiple projects to be worked on concurrently.
You can find more info on our site http://www.distributed.net and on RSAs
site http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/97challenge/
Chipper
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, William Knowles wrote:
> Forgive me if this has been mentioned before, But is anyone
> working on an effort to break any of these, or could someone
> point me to a URL to sign up?
>
> Thanks!
>
> William Knowles
> erehwon@dis.org
>
>
> URL: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,16287,00.html
>
> Taking a cue from a competitor, Canadian encryption vendor Certicom
> has issued a challenge to cryptographers, mathematicians, and hackers
> to try to break its elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) algorithms.
>
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