Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 18:07:22 -0400 (EDT) From: rasmus@lerdorf.on.ca (Rasmus Lerdorf) To: Marin Purgar - PMC <pmc@asgard.hr> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, rsacrack@vex.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RSA] RSA Challenge - 23blocks from First Place!! Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970415180638.85A-100000@chris.lerdorf.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970415230122.20660A-100000@odin.asgard.hr>
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> > 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). Ah, right, I did indeed miss this. I thought they were working on the same contest. Never mind. -Rasmus
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