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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!!
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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