Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 15 Apr 1997 18:19:01 -0300 (ADT)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        rasmus@bellglobal.com
Cc:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, rsacrack@vex.net, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RSA] RSA Challenge - 23blocks from First Place!!
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.970415180325.219w-100000@thelab.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <ML-2.3.861137925.2516.rasmus@inet-dev>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 rasmus@bellglobal.com wrote:

> By the way, the Deschall and Brydder clients seem to be an order of 

	Brydder?  How many seperate efforts *are* out there right now?

> magnitude faster than these current rc5 clients we are running.
> The benchmarks from http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm show:
> 
>   Dual Pentium 200 MHz -- 2.003M keys per second -- reported by user.
>   PentiumPro 166MHz -- 901K keys per second -- Linux P6 client.
>   PentiumPro 180MHz -- 850K keys per second -- reported by user.
>   Apple PowerPC 804 180MHz -- 774K keys per second -- Linux client.
>   Pentium 133 MHz -- 662K keys per second -- Windows P5 client.

	Tim, what sort of rates do your clients get?  According to
the README off his page, for his optimized client, he's getting an approx
25% performance increase...these rates seem to indicate a 5x performance
increase...

> We need to either take this client and use it to improve the clients
> we are using or scrap our current approach and join the Deschall effort.
> With clients that are so much faster than ours, we don't stand a chance.

	I've just grabbed their client and am running a block off of it
to see if my results on my P133 running FreeBSD comes anywhere near the
662K they report on a Pentium 133...

	I think the problem with the bovine clients is that there is 
probably no assembly optimizations in them, like what genx tried to do...

	But, so far, the client can't even get a connection to the key
server:

> ./dvclient-i586-freebsd.WAX -e rsacrack@vex.net -s 128.2.75.22
Using email address: rsacrack@vex.net
Using server address: 128.2.75.22
DES Violation Client v1.0
(C) Copyright 1997 the DES Violation Group
Obtaining keyspace from 128.2.75.22.
Error connecting to server.
Waiting 2 minutes....

	128.2.75.22 == keyserver.des.violation.net, which is the default
server it attempts to connect to...

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 





Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.NEB.3.96.970415180325.219w-100000>