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Jeroen Hazewinkel wins prize for best presentation
At the annual meeting of the J.M. Burgers Centrum (the Research School for Fluid Dynamics) Jeroen Hazewinkel of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has been awarded the first prize for his presentation about tomographical (3D) reconstructions of internal water waves.
New record decomposition into prime numbers demonstrates vulnerability of important cryptographic keys
Researchers of the Cryptology and Information Security group of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam with partners from Germany (BSI and Bonn University), France (INRIA Nancy), Japan (NTT) and Switzerland (EPFL) have broken a 768-bit RSA key by finding its prime factors.

Experts uncover weakness in Internet security
Independent security researchers in California and researchers at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands, EPFL in Switzerland, and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands have found a weakness in the Internet digital certificate infrastructure.