ECC2-109 Winners Certified

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."

Hmmm...

[thewiz]

$2,500 for breaking an encryption scheme. I wonder what SETI@Home will pay me for discovering an extraterrestrial...

Re:Hmmm...

[xicodarap]

astroturf?

First off

[Rooked_One]

Nasa will be the one awarding your prize... A pair of handcuffs, followed by a rag soaked with ether. After that you will just undergo lots of brainwashing, and you pretty much get the idea from there. :)

How to get the prize money up...

[api_syurga]

1) Put the decryptors in a remote island
2) Make them wear skimpy clothing
3) get them to compete in small subgames, such as
blow the fish up etc..
4) Get an affable good looking host to..err host..
5) Get cameman to zoom in on their mental games an
anguish as they try their best to out-decrypt the
other contestants.

voila..$1Million Cash Prize

Damn hackers

[Anonymous Coward]

Someone call Ashcroft.

U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

That's great, but

[Gizzmonic]

What about the ED-209 winners? Remember, that robot from Robocop?

No, not that one, that was Robocop. The other one. He was all robot. He didn't have Robocop's human side. But he did have some cool machine guns.

what's wrong with the world today?

[grammar nazi]

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."

The grammar nazi says, "Tsktsk!"
...will each receive $2500 for matching distinguished pairs that have solved...

Re:First off

[WwWonka]

Nasa will be the one awarding your prize... A pair of handcuffs, followed by a rag soaked with ether.

Hmmm, I received the same treatment visiting the Neverland Ranch when I was young.

Re:How to get the prize money up...

[nadda]

Anything intellectual means immediate ellimination. Dumb as a brick eye-candy stays and rates highly. Hypocrisy, backstabbing, lack of general knowledge and an overinflated ego equate to bonus points.

I think my work place must be a reality show.

The decrypted message

[Anonymous Coward]

"Annie says: don't forget to drink your Ovaltine."

Quick: Serial for turbotax?

[Anonymous Coward]

D035 @Ny0n3 G07z @ 53rI@L5 0r cR@CkZ f0r 7urb07@x!!!
I'v3 G07 14 MiNu735 70 l0@D i7 uP @Nd g37 My 7@X3$ DoNe!

Odds are that

[dj245]

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."

I bet $2500 that the other half of each of the team's "matching distinguished pairs" will:

1. Go shopping for shoes
2. Go shopping for jewelry
3. Go shopping gor shoes AND jewelry

Unless they are single, there is no way this gets spent on hardware.

Re:X3WJB-3B2BH-3MPM6-8F6GR-X9HBJ

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn. That's my root password. Damn again.

Re:Damn hackers

[momerath2003]

I don't think you can "call" a mail address.

Re:That's a lot of processing

[SHEENmaster]

"Is it 0x000001?"
"No."
"Is it 0x000002?"
"No."
"Is it 0x000003?"
"No."
"Is it 0x000004?"
"No." ...
"Is it 0x0002FD?"
"If I tell you, will you shut up?"
"Yes."

1,200 years of cpu time!

[Magickcat]

"... the gross CPU time used to solve the challenge was roughly equivalent to an Athlon XP 3200+ working nonstop for 1,200 years."

- Would that theoretical uptime be 1,200 years running Linux?

If this computer is running Windows, I think it needs to be put back on the Area 51 shelf next to the perpetual motion machines, hen's teeth and Tesla weapons.

Re:That's great, but

[GileadGreene]

The original ED-209 was a pure robot. The Robocop-2 movie was the one that involved criminal brains in robots. Please drop your incorrect criticism of the parent post. You have 15 seconds to comply...

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