Official List Announcement
January 19, 1999

Greetings from distributed.net!

 Congratulations to everyone who participated.  We successfully solved
 the DES Challenge III key within 24 hours.  The key was found by
 Deep Crack after 22 hours and 30 minutes of searching.

 We have already confirmed that the key, "92 2C 68 C4 7A EA DF F2" successfully
 decrypts:

 "The unknown message is: See you in Rome (second AES conference, March 22-23, 1999)" 

 Thanks again!

Daniel Baker dbaker@distributed.net