Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 18:40:32 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Marin Purgar - PMC <pmc@asgard.hr> Cc: rasmus@bellglobal.com, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, rsacrack@vex.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RSA] RSA Challenge - 23blocks from First Place!! Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970415183459.219B-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970415230122.20660A-100000@odin.asgard.hr>
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On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Marin Purgar - PMC wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 rasmus@bellglobal.com wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> You missed a point. RC5 and DES are *not* the same algorithms. RC5 is far
> more CPU hungry and there is no symetric in it. Also RSA has separate
> challenges for DES (only one 56 bit) and RC5 (40, 48, 56, 64 ... bit).
Oh, so DESCHALL (*smacks forehead...DES Challenge*) and the
bovine stuff are totally different challenges?? So we aren't duplicating
an effort, we are just working on two different contests?
BTW...the linux@linuxnet.org group is gradually catching up, being
in third place right now, but their Mkeys/sec rating has been steadily
increasing...
1 rsacrack@vex.net 38629 19.8 days 9 secs ago 6.06
2 crackerz@best.net 38257 19.8 days 2 mins ago 6.00
3 linux@linuxnet.org 25615 19.8 days 32 secs ago 4.02
crackerz@best.net hasn't changed much as far as Mkeys/sec are
concerned...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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