5.2 Prizes and Status   The following are the official prize lists for the Certicom ECC Challenge:   5.2.1 Exercise Prize Lists   Exercise Field Size (in bits) Prize (US$) Start Date End Date Time for Solution ECC2-79 79 Handbook of Applied Cryptography and one complete Maple V software package for any platform requested Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST Tuesday, December 16, 1997 1,700 billion operations ECCp-79 79 Handbook of Applied Cryptography and one complete Maple V software package for any platform requested Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST  Saturday, December 6, 1997  1400 billion operations ECC2-89 89 Handbook of Applied Cryptography and one complete Maple V software package for any platform requested Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST Monday, Febuary 9, 1998 1.8 X 1013 Operations ECCp-89 89 Handbook of Applied Cryptography and one complete Maple V software package for any platform requested Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST Monday, January 12, 1998 3 X 1013 Operations ECC2-97 97 $5,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST     ECC2K-95 97 $5,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST Thursday, May 21, 1998 2.16 X 1013 Operations ECCp-97 97 $5,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST March 18, 1998 200 Trillion   Note: the Handbook of Applied Cryptography, co-authored by Dr. Alfred J. Menezes, Dr. Paul C. van Oorshcot, and Dr. Scott A. Vanstone, has a retail value of US$75 per copy. Maple V is an advanced symbolic mathematical computation system from Waterloo Maple Inc. It provides facilities for algebraic and integer computations essential for cryptographic research. Its retail value ranges from $1000 US to $2000 US, depending on the platform.   5.2.2 Level I Challenge Prize List   Challenge Field Size (in bits) Prize (US$) Start Date End Date Time for Solution ECC2-109 109 $10,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST     ECC2K-108 109 $10,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST     ECCp-109 109 $10,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST     ECC2-131 131 $20,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST     ECC2K-130 131 $20,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST     ECCp-131 131 $20,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST         5.2.3 Level II Challenge Prize List   Challenge Field Size (in bits) Prize (US$) Start Date End Date Time for Solution ECC2-163 163 $30,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST     ECC2K-163 163 $30,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST     ECCp-163 163 $30,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST     ECC2-191 191 $40,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST     ECCp-191 191 $40,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST     ECC2-238 239 $50,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST     ECC2K-238 239 $50,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST     ECCp-239 239 $50,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST     ECC2-353 359 $100,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST     ECC2K-358 359 $100,000 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 1 p.m. EST         5.2.4 Administration and Collection of Prizes The first person or party to report the correct solution for any exercise or challenge, complete with the methodology and steps used to discover that solution, will win the prize for that particular exercise or challenge he/she has solved. An organized group of individuals reporting a solution will be treated the same as one person reporting a solution, in that only one cash prize will be awarded to the group with the correct solution, reported as specified in section 5.1.1. The prize shall be administered so that it is divided evenly among all members of that group. In several instances, there are two exercises or challenges with the same field size (e.g. 97-bit exercise) and the same corresponding cash prize, but are based on one of two finite fields—elliptic curves over the finite field F2m and elliptic curves over the finite field Fp. These exercises and challenges have different solutions and the corresponding prizes will be awarded accordingly. Therefore, should the correct solution be properly reported for the Exercise ECCp-97 (97-bit field size over the field Fp), the ECC2-97 exercise (97-bit field size over the field F2m) would still be available to solve and the cash prize available for award to the person(s) with the correct solution.

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