From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 3 13:21:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA28436 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 13:21:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from thelab.hub.org (hal-ns1-23.netcom.ca [207.181.94.87]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA28429 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 13:21:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from thelab.hub.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id RAA06356; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 17:21:09 -0400 (AST) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 17:21:09 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Brian Tao cc: chat@FreeBSD.org, rsacrack@vex.net Subject: Re: [RSACRACK] Chance to increase the team... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Brian Tao wrote: > On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > Also, provide me with the contact info that can be included with > > the bulletin for folks that are interested: > > > > Contact name: > > Contact email: > > I vote for putting down "RC5 Crack Team @ Vex.Net" and > rsacrack@vex.net for the above two, rather than trying to elect one > individual to be the contact. > Sounds good to me... > > Web URL: > > http://www.vex.net/rsa/ of course. :) > > What do you all think of this? > > "Our team is a worldwide community of people interested in a common > goal: to meet the challenge of breaking RSA's 56-bit crypto key. In > cooperation with New Media Laboratories (http://www.genx.net/), we > invite anyone with a net-connected computer to join our effort. No > computer is too small, and no contribution will go unnoticed. We wish > to demonstrate in no uncertain terms the power of the Internet when > united towards a common goal. Please visit http://www.vex.net/rsa/ > for our team's progress and for information on subscribing to our > mailing list." Erk, wouldn't draw me into the fray, I'm afraid... More of a description of what we are trying to accomplish (ie. prove that a 56bit encryption key isn't as secure as it once was?), and what's at stake (a $10k award, with $9k going to charity and the other $1k going...?) and a pointer to http://www.vex.net/rsa for details on how to join the effort? The list targets, primarily, professionals, not hackers. You know, those ppl that the FreeOSs have a really hard time selling to in the first place? :)