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To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge 
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Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 19:16:30 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> It looks like they are about to release a new binary-only key tester, if they
> rezero the stats because of the change, shouldnt we start up a freebsd.org
> team?

I was kind of thinking that... :-)

It would be good PR, if nothing else.

> On another paranoia thought:  Now that best.net has several thousand machines
> grinding on keys, wouldnt it be a neat trick for them to turn that compute
> power to whatever they wanted? :)  Who would be any the wiser!  Lets crack
> passwords shall we!  Zing!  Maybe some softer longer keys.. zing! :)  hee hee
.

Hey, if you have a new tool, you try and use it! :-)

					Jordan