RE: ECC2-79 cracked: Alpha Linux did it.

I'm not a real doofus, but I play one at a national laboratory. (BAISLEY@fndcd.fnal.gov)
Tue, 16 Dec 1997 9:39:19 -0600


> Se`vres, France,

C'est vrais, friends!

> ... Louis Freeh would say

Always good for a laugh, non?

> Jay Estabrook's new 21264 machine made a cameo appearance!

Wow, nice contacts, Robdude!

> There were also 4 Alphas running Digital Unix.

And which ones would those be? ;-)

> The solution to your ECC2-79 problem is the residue class of
> 276856274258963891889538 modulo 302231454903954479142443.
> A total of 1737410165382 iterations were performed, finding
> 1617 "distinguished" points and one collision.

Utterly awesome, as usual. KUTGW!

Cheers,
Wayne

Fooled around enough with numbers
Let's not be ourselves today
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