] RSA Security on Tuesday said that over three months of ] consistent effort helped a team of mathematicians from ] Europe and North America solve the company's latest ] encryption puzzle. ] ] The multinational team of eight experts used about 100 ] workstations to crack the code that won them a $10,000 ] prize. ] ] ] The contestants' task was to determine the two prime ] numbers that have been used to generate eight "challenge" ] numbers, which are central to RSAs 576-bit encryption ] code. |