From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Mar 21 9:50: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 987F6151DD for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 09:50:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA16596; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:49:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:49:19 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor To: Brian Adkins Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RC5-64 Contest In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990321012057.00fa7680@mailbox.iwaynet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Brian Adkins wrote: > There's still not that many people participating. I think it's > possible for Team FreeBSD to keep moving up the rankings, even to the > number one slot. It's a fun contest and it might even increase > visibility. At one point, back when I was actually doing this FreeBSD was up to 11 or so. I finally quit because it was boring and the progress was SLOW. All of these people/machines working on this for over a year and a half and we've covered 6.5% of the keyspace? Blah. It seems to me that 64 bit encryption is plenty good. :-) If and when SETI@home gets up I'll probably do that. Brett *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * brett@daemonnews.org * * http://www.daemonnews.org/ * *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message