] 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 RSA™s 576-bit encryption
] code.

Multinational team cracks RSA 576-bit encypted code