Are you sure the prize would still be paid? Didn't the challenge already end and they are only crunching on it for fun?
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Are you sure the prize would still be paid? Didn't the challenge already end and they are only crunching on it for fun?
According to this, yes: "In May 2007, RSA Labs announced that Secret Key Challenge would be discontinued. Fortunately, due to the continued interest in our RC5-72 project we have decided to privately sponsor the prize and operate the RC5-72 project as before." (http://www.distributed.net/RC5) :)
It will still be paid out, but the prize distribution has changed from the original challenge. As per the link @fortex posted, it is now: