EPFL mathematicians crack eliptical curves encryption problem
Elliptical Machines | July 15, 2009
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Mathematicians at EPFL , the Swiss federal polytechnic institute, used a cluster of more than 200 PlayStation 3 game consoles to spend six months solving an encryption problem, breaking a previous record set in 2002. The laboratory for cryptologic algorithms cracked a 112-bit encryption based on elliptical curves. The significance of the work is that it “may serve to boost our confidence in the strength of elliptic curve cryptography (ECC),” say the author