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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Ilya Volynets <iv...@usa.net> on 2000/04/05 07:03:36 UTC

Re: [[OT] ECC breaker gives money to ASF.. or FSF?]

Largest? What about distributed.net?

Magnus Bodin <ma...@bodin.org> wrote:
> 
> http://slashdot.org/articles/00/04/04/1437251.shtml
> 
> "Certicom's ECC2k-108 Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm challenge has been
> broken! This was the largest public calculation ever to use a complex
> parallel algorithm. $5,000 dollars in winnings will be donated to the Free
> Software Foundation. Congratulations to everyone who participated,
including
> team Slashdot! " There seems to be conflicting versions of info about the
> prize money - some says 8,000 to the Apache Foundation, others say 5,000 to
> the FSF.
> 
> /magnus
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