The $100,000 challenge for hackers/crackers

A company called Bodacion Technologies is offering $100,000 to anyone who can crack their biomorphic number generator and predict the final, one-thousandth, number in a sequence of 999.

The company is doing this to promote its Hydra server, which uses biomorphic computation for crypto routines. Additional security enhancements come from using an embedded OS and not having anything but a Web and Java applet server running. So there's basically a lot less to attack, which is of course inherently more secure than running hundreds of services.

To claim the $100K, all one needs to do is obtain the 999 numbers and accurately predict the thousandth one, and explain how it was done (guessing doesn't count).

In addition to the number challenge, the company also has a Hydra box at 208.254.152.215 which it invites you to own if you can. There's no prize for the CTF challenge; but perhaps one might get a Bodacion t-shirt or coffee mug, and of course a mention in The Register, if one should succeed.

Happy cracking.

A company called Bodacion Technologies is offering $100,000 to anyone who can crack their biomorphic number generator and predict the final, one-thousandth, number in a sequence of 999.

The company is doing this to promote its Hydra server, which uses biomorphic computation for crypto routines. Additional security enhancements come from using an embedded OS and not having anything but a Web and Java applet server running. So there's basically a lot less to attack, which is of course inherently more secure than running hundreds of services.

To claim the $100K, all one needs to do is obtain the 999 numbers and accurately predict the thousandth one, and explain how it was done (guessing doesn't count).

In addition to the number challenge, the company also has a Hydra box at 208.254.152.215 which it invites you to own if you can. There's no prize for the CTF challenge; but perhaps one might get a Bodacion t-shirt or coffee mug, and of course a mention in The Register, if one should succeed.

Happy cracking.

hell yeah! that would be cool to try if i actually had any skills...hahahha ..pretty good marketing strategy .it would be interesting to see if someone can do it

hell yeah! that would be cool to try if i actually had any skills...hahahha ..pretty good marketing strategy .it would be interesting to see if someone can do it

are they suggesting to use like probability,etc maths to deduce the number or are challenging somebody to crack their program..

are they suggesting to use like probability,etc maths to deduce the number or are challenging somebody to crack their program..

seems to be very tempting.......and i just might be intrested if i get paid in advance :)

seems to be very tempting.......and i just might be intrested if i get paid in advance :)

hasnt this been done befor?

hasnt this been done befor?

It's really interesting. Great way to enhance their security...

It's really interesting. Great way to enhance their security...

I heard about this from my computer teacher like a week ago. Basicially their server is "unhackable". The whole server is hardware. There i a little space for the website and that is it. No scripts, no nothing. I think they even run their own os. I learned this from the newspaper i get in the morning, http://www.dailyherald.com/search/ma...intID=37319278
Everybody disagrees with me when i say this server is unhackable, but it really is.
Just my two cents,

I heard about this from my computer teacher like a week ago. Basicially their server is "unhackable". The whole server is hardware. There i a little space for the website and that is it. No scripts, no nothing. I think they even run their own os. I learned this from the newspaper i get in the morning, http://www.dailyherald.com/search/ma...intID=37319278
Everybody disagrees with me when i say this server is unhackable, but it really is.
Just my two cents,

I am little leery of saying anything can't be done. They said the Titantic was unsinkable. You know how that turned out! Unless this thing is a solid concrete block it's bound to have some vulnerabilities. But this is a great way to draw attention to their new product. But how wise do y'all think it is to tell a hacker/cracker that they can't do something? Isn't that asking for trouble? BTW. The articles I looked at didn't say anything about them actually having an actual server on line for "practice" cracks. Where did that information come from?

I am little leery of saying anything can't be done. They said the Titantic was unsinkable. You know how that turned out! Unless this thing is a solid concrete block it's bound to have some vulnerabilities. But this is a great way to draw attention to their new product. But how wise do y'all think it is to tell a hacker/cracker that they can't do something? Isn't that asking for trouble? BTW. The articles I looked at didn't say anything about them actually having an actual server on line for "practice" cracks. Where did that information come from?

To bad I don't have any skillz. With 100k on the line I bet someone took the time to make it more or less hacker proof. But then again nothing is 100% secure.

I just took a look at their website and found
1. They do not invite you to hack anything
2. They give you the 999 numbers
3. This has nothing to do with hacking, it's a crypto challenge
4. The computational power that is needed to accomplish something like this is way beyond what any individual has, unless they have access to a mini, super or a large cluster.

Here you go.. the following txt has the first 999 bodacions. looks like fun. I'm gunna have to crunch thru this later tonight. BTW this is all they gave me.

weeee!
here we go! time to test those braincells.... hopefully mine still works, hehe :D

I don't see any lituriature on hacking a box either. Any the 1000 numbers would be almost impostible. You could look at things like http://www.distributed.net/ . I think this has to do with crypto not hacking/cracking. I think that some for of clustering or distributed computing is able to crack to 1000 number. No let me re-state that"I know that it is posible to cypher the 1000 key". It is just a mater of time to crunch all the data.

try to hack this he he he suckers www.geocities.com/hacker_markou/night_vision

If something is made by a human, it can be cracked. Nothing is perfect and nothing is fool proof. Someone will figure it out and they will be a richer person thats for sure...lol...good luck to anyone that's trying.

hmm well due to public demand... i have to post the source.. lol

so here it is..

http://www.blackcode.com/news/view.php?id=191

They are not actually asking you to number crunch the solution to this problem, they are actually asking for a mathmatical proof of a insecurity in it. Just thought I would point that out. :)