Scientists crack Net security code

["Mark Brown" <markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

High computing power brought to bear in breaking RSA-155

The scientists used a Cray 900-16 supercomputer, 300 personal computers and
specially designed number-crunching software to break the RSA-155 code - the
backbone of encryption codes designed to protect e-mail messages and
credit-card transactions.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/305553.asp

"Your everyday hacker won't be able to do this," said project director
Herman te Reile. "You have to have extensive capacity, the money, and the
know-how, but we did it."



ps mark thinking to himself, where did i put that cray anyway?