From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 15 14:42:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA13337 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:42:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (hal-ns1-03.netcom.ca [207.181.94.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA13332 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id SAA06245; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 18:40:32 -0300 (ADT) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 18:40:32 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Marin Purgar - PMC cc: rasmus@bellglobal.com, Terry Lambert , rsacrack@vex.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RSA] RSA Challenge - 23blocks from First Place!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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