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Date:      Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:42:32 -0600
From:      Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net>
To:        Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@alcnet.com>
Cc:        Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Team FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <37710068.45691461@thuntek.net>
References:  <000901bebd8e$bfcf6b80$291c453f@kbyanc.alcnet.com>

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Kelly Yancey wrote:
> 
>   I have to admit that finding evidence of extraterrestial life would be
> one of the great, if not the greatest, milestone of mankind...but how long
> is it going to take? 1 year? 10 years? 100 years? In the meantime, I
> personally can derive a greater sense of accomplishment from more readily
> accomplishable tasks. True, cracking digital encryption isn't as sexy, but
> it has a tangible timeframe to completion. Also, distributed.net is
> organizing other, more practical, projects including OGR. Which when
> available, I intend to put equivalent effort into pushing Team FreeBSD
> to the top of that effort's rankings.
>   But again, there are just my personal beliefs, since we were sharing :)
> 
SETI could be 5 minutes from finding the Bugs... or it could be 500
years. What matters is the benefit -- whether they're friendly or not
=8-O -- not the work.

If you crack an RC5 key, you're only cracking ONE message's code, and we
already know IT CAN BE DONE, given enough cycles. 
-- 
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