 Tex Longhorn45-35Premium,MVM
join:2001-01-05
San Diego, CA
kudos:3 | reply to tmpchaos
Re: Major announcement from distributed.net How do we continue if RSA isn't going to provide the solution? |
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 tmpchaosRequiescat in pacePremium,Mod
join:2000-04-28
Hoboken, NJ | There's a lot unclear at the moment. They appear to say that they can't get validation of the answer, but that they will be able to actually get the answer. |
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 DrewCapuGiant Diehard
join:2001-12-19
California | reply to Tex Longhorn
said by Tex Longhorn:How do we continue if RSA isn't going to provide the solution? I would think that only the correct key would result in a valid English sentence. |
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 cinnamonHow Smart Is Your Card?Premium
join:2002-01-19
Tulsa, OK | reply to Tex Longhorn
said by Tex Longhorn:How do we continue if RSA isn't going to provide the solution? said by »www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2100 :For each contest, the unknown plaintext message was preceded by three known blocks of text that contained the 24-character phrase "The unknown message is: ". The correct key will expose the literal string "The unknown message is: ". It will also expose the rest of the message which is unknown except to just a few employees of RSA Security.
I'm sure that distributed.net took this little fact into account when coding up their software. I know I would.
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