Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 09:58:26 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: ejs@bfd.com (Eric J. Schwertfeger) Cc: ben@narcissus.ml.org, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, taob@risc.org, toor@dyson.iquest.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge Message-ID: <199703021758.JAA23353@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970302084737.18611B-100000@harlie.bfd.com> from "Eric J. Schwertfeger" at Mar 2, 97 08:49:09 am
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Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > > > On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote: > > > On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > > > The details can be found at http://www.vex.net/rsa/ > > > for the team we are participating on. > > > > Well, narcissus and I are on board. I have gotten this message, though: > > > > get_keyspace: Operation timed out > > rc5-56-client: Error getting key. > > rc5-56-client: Sleeping 10 minutes... > > > > Anything to worry about? I guess I should wait and see if it happens > > again. I amped the rc5-client off the the background -- that shouldn't > > make any difference, should it? > > Running it in the forground on 5 machines, I'm lucky if less than 3 of > them are looping with that message at any one time. Really agrivates me > when neither of my PPro machines are generating :-) to add insult to injury, the time spent sleeping waiting to get a new key block is counted against your run time. my computer, which does 90k+ keys/sec on the "-m" option, yields between 73k-89k keys/sec. in processing 4 key blocks this morning, i spent 44 minutes waiting to report the results and 160 minutes waiting to get the next key block. i could have done 3-4 more key blocks in that time, i.e. 50% effective thruput ;(( the precompiled client does not handle a SIGHUP correctly. rather than wait for the key block to finish, it terminates immediately. shame they did not add some timestamps to the messages. would make the output more interesting jmbhome | help
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