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Tex Longhorn
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reply to tmpchaos

Re: Major announcement from distributed.net

How do we continue if RSA isn't going to provide the solution?


tmpchaos
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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.



DrewCapu
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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.


cinnamon
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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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