Greetings!

I'm very proud (and quite relieved) to announce that
distributed.net has successfully met the CS Communications
& Systems CSC encryption challenge.  The key was submitted
to CS Communications & Systems just moments ago.  At the
point of success, distributed.net had checked 98.78%
of the CSC keyspace.

At 06:26:52 on 01/16/00, we received a success key,
00438EF36FE3FC21.  I haven't contacted the user yet, so
I can only say that the computer that found the key was
a Sun Sparc in the United States running Solaris and
version v2.8002 of the DCTI client.  More information will
be made available when (s)he agrees.

The secret message is: CS-Cipher a ete presente en mars 97
a 'Fast Software Encryption' (PARIS). Congratulations to
the winner!

As of 01/16/2000 at 10:08:48, distributed.net has received
official congratulations from CS and a confirmation that we
have solved the CSC challenge.

Users can expect an official press release with far more
information and statistics within a few hours.  Please
standby for more details.

Thanks again for all your support and dedication.