Hiya Ernst,
http://www.4thestate.co.uk/cipherchallenge/
There's also a good article in the Daily Telegraph:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000785383641742rtmo=LlLdbL3datmo=gg3Kpg=/et/00/10/12/wswed12.html
Cheers,
Paul Landon
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Check out:
I believe the cracking project is http://www.distributed.net/
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Dear Ernst,
The site you want is http://www.4thestate.co.uk/cipherchallenge/
The competition is from a book called "The Code Book" by Simon
Singh, and I enjoyed reading it immensely. It's about the history
of cryptography and code breakers, from ancient Egypt to the modern
