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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Brian Tao <taob@risc.org>
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On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Brian Tao wrote:

>     How about we turn the RC5 cracking code into an lkm and include it
> with the next distribution of FreeBSD?  I figure the 56-bit key will
> take over a year to crack given the current growth curve and figuring
> in a bit of luck.  Why not make it easy for every FreeBSD box out
> there to join in?  ;-)  That would be.... wild.  :)

Hell, put it in the kernel -- make every new FreeBSD user a member of the
team whether they want to be or not!

> --
> Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
> "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
> 
> 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."