Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 15:14:54 +0000 From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@tgci.com> To: Darxus <darxus@Op.Net> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bovine Message-ID: <199709042230.PAA05930@train.tgci.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970904164303.7216C-100000@monet.op.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970904124638.2827L-100000@uk.ns.eu.org>
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> On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Aled Morris wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Sep 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: > > > > > I'm up to #2093, might possibly make the top 2000 shortly! > > > > I've sent a message to wwongs@pl.jaring.my, who's listed as "Team > > FreeBSD" in the team list, I'd like to bring together the FreeBSD efforts > > at least from a web site description of the hardware out there. > > > > Anyone else working on Bovine? > > what *is* bovine ?? it sounds very cool from the 3 posts I've seen on > this list... I would have asked in personal email, but I'm guessing there > are others who are curious... it sounds like there would be a URL for this > thing ? Check out: http://rc5.distributed.net/ It's a concerted, distributed effort to crack an RSA 56 bit secret key to demonstrate to the US government that the US needs to be able to freely export stronger encryption in order to sell competitive software and to enable US based companies to use secure encryption with overseas offices. Kinda fun. :) Riley
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