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Subject: [iwar] [fc:Crackers.tackle.$100,000.challenge]
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Crackers tackle $100,000 challenge

By John Geralds, vnunet.com, 3/4/02
<a href="http://www.net-security.org/cgi-bin/news.cgi?url=http://www.vnunet.com/News/1129666">http://www.net-security.org/cgi-bin/news.cgi?url=http://www.vnunet.com/News/1129666>

Encryption vendor throws down the gauntlet A $100,000 cash prize will be
awarded by Bodacion Technologies to anyone who can crack the encryption
system of the company's Hydra internet server. Hydra's security system
is based on biomorphic mathematics, a derivative of the Chaos Theory,
used to model the random growth of living things. Hydra uses a
biomorphic algorithm to generate series of pattern-less numbers and each
figure in a series is called a bodacion.

A bodacion is a character representation of a large number generated
using mathematics to be difficult to guess. Because a series of
bodacions is truly random, no two Hydra users will ever receive the same
session ID, customer ID or order ID; nor will any hacker be able to
discern a pattern and predict the next number. Contestants in the
challenge are issued 999 bodacions from a series of 1,000. To win the
$100,000, the decoder must predict correctly the bodacion that would
complete the series.

Brad Hessel, Bodacion's chief executive, said: "Our encryption system is
uncrackable. We are so confident, we are giving any takers 100,000
reasons to try." Entrants agree to the terms and conditions of the
content, which include demonstrating the mathematical work used to solve
the problem. Challengers can register for the contest at
www.Bodacion.com/BodacionChallenge.html .The Hydra internet server is a
software-hardware combination that includes content caching, content
acceleration, and the ability to connect database and integrated dynamic
web serving capabili

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