Re: Stop rc5v2 client, Bovine team won 56 bit secret key challenge!
On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Britton wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote:
>
> > I don't think it has already been reported on this mailing list,
> > anyway, just for who is letting the rc5v2 client run: www.distributed.net
> > gives details. Ok, maybe the Linux community started late and we were not
> > the greatest contributors, but we _did_ contribute to that 47% keyspace
> > exploration.
>
> Team linux did quite well, I think coming in second only to the Mac team
> (which consists mostly of 64 bit RISC procs, and even then, when that
> client is running the machine is bogged, ie click... wait 3 secs... ah now
> my window is in working on coming into the foreground:)
Hello, nice to meet you after so long. Well... did they mention Linux in
their "press" pages on the WEB? It didn't jump to my eye indeed... nor to
Netscrape find text command anyway... And if it is definitely confirmed
they didn't, then I won't run their client anymore (apart that I also had
notified them a bug for which some of them told it may had been causing
some hundreds blocks lost per day).
Nicola
> Anyway, the
> bovine team has plunged straight into the 64 bit effort! Since
> involvement has really exploded lately, they figure they may be able to
> slove it almost as fast if they get the same participation. I already
> have the new client, rc564, running. If anyone wants to get involved, I
> would be happy to help with the few questions that may come up as yo
> uinstall and configure the very straightforward client.
>
> >
> > Nicola Bernardelli <nbern@mail.protos.it>
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