Heavyweight Partnerships for Mystery Twister- Extra Impetus for Education Offensive Prominent companies support the largest decryption competition in the world

Berlin 10. 6. 2003 (PROTEXT/ots) The largest decipheringcompetition in the world, Mystery Twister (www.mystery-twister.com), is being actively supported by several companieswith an international reputation. Besides Sun Microsystems,SecWare AG and the Horst Görtz Institute, the Discovery ChannelIMAX Berlin, Verisign and Cadac GmbH have all lined up aspartners to the worldwide competition, and are giving theassociated educational initiative extra impetus.

The Mystery Twister is being organised and arranged by aplanning team based at the companies Cadac GmbH and SecWare AG.The competition, which has prize money of over US $1,000,000,consists of twelve interactive puzzles and is open to allInternet users worldwide: beginners and experts, professionalsand amateur surfers. Part of the entrance fee will go to acharitable institution to support educational measures.

Mystery Twister Partners: since it was founded in 1982, SunMicrosystems Inc. (SUNW) with its vision "The Network is theComputer", has become a leading supplier of products,technologiesand services for network computing. Sun provides the foundationsfor networking business. The company has 34,000 employees inover 100 countries, and can be found on the Internet atwww.sun.de.

SecWare Technologies AG is the leading manufacturer anddeveloper of Maximum Security VPN Gateways, ISDN encryptionsystems and e- mail encryption as well as a designer of crypto-Chips, accelerator boards and KeyManagement software.

VeriSign is a provider of managed services for authenticationand SSL encryption as well as for brand protection on theInternet. Nine of the ten largest credit institutions inGermany rely on VeriSign.

Cadac GmbH is one of the leading system houses for theintegration of high-availability IT solutions based on open,networkable computer systems using top-performance securityproducts.

You can find further information at: www.mystery-twister.com. ots Original Text Service: Cadac GmbH Internet:http://www.presseportal.de

Press contact: Soeren Heinze Director Communications Ph.:+49. (0)30. 246 30-509 Fax.:+49. (0)30. 246 30-246 e-Mail:s.heinze@mystery-twister.com www.mystery-twister.com

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