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From: Tim Vanderhoek <tim@ppp6419.on.sympatico.ca>
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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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