From the comments, is this early bitcoin mining? >It's even better when you (with permission) install it on all the computers at work and put in on 'invisible'

From the comments, is this early bitcoin mining? >It's even better when you (with permission) install it on all the computers at work and put in on 'invisible' mode. If you want to get technical it's cracking the code for a PRESET quote in a RC5-64 encoded contest message, and if you find the correct key then you get $1000 and x2 if you're not associated with a group.