Thu 23 Dec. 2004

Crypto-Challenge

Quite a stir in the c’t security forum this morning around the Crypto-Challenge of Rolf Jentzsch from the Technical Universtiy of Darmstadt.

€ 10.000 to be won by anyone who manages to crack a new, supposedly fullproof encryption scheme developed in the GDR during the cold war. The challenge will run for a full year.

While the information is in German only at present, I imagine that it won’t be long before translations are made available. Until then there’s always Google. On the other hand, to anyone capable of taking on such a task, that ought to be no obstacle at all.

From a mere mortal’s perspective, it’ll be interesting to observe whether such a bold claim can withstand the onslaught.

Update: 26.12.04
Look’s like it was all a hoax of some sort - the page is no longer online…

Update 10.01.05
Now it appears that it just ran into some unforseen problems at first and is actually taking place elsewhere!

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