Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Crack and Earn

RSA Security encourages people to try and crack / factorize large prime numbers, the difficulty of which is the base for RSA Encryption. In Nov 2005, RSA-640 was factorized and the team which factorized won a prize of $20,000. It took 80, 2.2 GHz processors for 3 months to factorize this 193 digit prime number. If you could crack RSA-2048, you could win a prize of $200,000. Are you game for it ??

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