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Date:      Sat, 30 Aug 1997 00:46:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <tim@ppp6419.on.sympatico.ca>
To:        Murray Stokely <murray@cdrom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cyberian RC5 Effort - 'Anti - Microsoft!'
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970830004411.385A-100000@ppp6419.on.sympatico.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970829182420.7337A-100000@pooh.cdrom.com>

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On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Murray Stokely wrote:

> - There is no statistical advantage to using Bovine over Cyberian at
> this time.  Bovine checked the first 6% sequentially.  So Cyberian
> didn't have to check that space, therefore they've technically
> eliminated 8% of the keyspace.  This means that roughly one key in 10

Huh?  Don't their stats say that they've checked almost 20% of the
keyspace?  http://rc5stats.distributed.net/summary.idc


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              hoping that the resultant code will run faster.




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