Very expensive $100
Question: In 1977, the creators of the RSA-129 encryption scheme encrypted a message with a 430-bit public key, and offered $100 to whomever could decrypt the message. In 1994, an international team successfully factored this public key and recovered the secret message. The message read, THE MAGIC WORDS ARE…
- SALAMANDER OCELOT
- SEGUNDO ORLANDO
- SQUEAMISH OSSIFRAGE
- SYMPHONIC OSCILLATION
Answer: SQUEAMISH OSSIFRAGE
About 1,600 machines took part in the decryption, taking about eight
months and approximately 5,000 MIPS-years of computing time.
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