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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 1999 16:47:32 -0500
From:      Brian Adkins <brian@lojic.com>
To:        Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RC5-64 Contest
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990321164610.00a844d0@mailbox.iwaynet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903211047070.16519-100000@peloton.physics.m ontana.edu>
References:  <4.1.19990321012057.00fa7680@mailbox.iwaynet.net>

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At 10:49 AM 3/21/99 -0700, Brett Taylor wrote:
>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.

Well, I have to agree with you about it being boring when it's taking so
long.  I was more interested in seeing Team FreeBSD move up to the number
one daily ranking than in cracking the code, and yes, 64-bit encryption
seems pretty good.



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