From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 20 11:40:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA17321 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA17313 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:40:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id OAA26287; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 14:35:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970620143541.17175@vinyl.quickweb.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 14:35:41 -0400 From: Mark Mayo To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD cracks DES ! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69e Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just thought I'd mention that the RSA DES challenge is over, and that the winning client was a DESCHALL machine, **** running on FreeBSD *** !! Neato. The search ended after 25% of the keyspace was searched (50% globablly). Considering the odds of that, combined with the fact that FreeBSD was collectively only cracking about 1-2% of the keys, I'd say the gods are on our side :-) -Mark -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert