If anyone stands a chance of cracking this particular code without brute force (which, let's face it, is an option open to people with money rather than the mathematicians who really understand what's going on) I'd bet on it being Andrew Wiles if he wanted to try. If I recall correctly, his PhD involved eliptical curves, and he went on to apply these in his proof to Fermat's Last Theorem - a puzzle that baffled mathematicians for years.