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Date:      Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:58:11 -0300 (ADT)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DES Challenge
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.970411145036.235J-100000@thelab.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <19970411102303.56819@vinyl.quickweb.com>

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On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Mark Mayo wrote:

> Hi, I just thought I'd let everyone know that a "for real", organized
> distributed attack on DES is underway (under the terms for the agreement
> with the RSA Challenge '97).

	Actually, this has been going on since March 18th, 1997...major old
news...

> 
> So if you feel like contributing to the cause, point your browser at
> http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm

	Ummmm...you might want to check out http://www.vex.net/rsacrack,
since we've been working at that "organized distributed attack" for the past,
what, month and a half now?  And, proudly, FreeBSD constitutes almost 41% of
the 231 hosts so far working at it :)

OS Breakdown
FreeBSD 80 (40.4%), Windows95 36 (12.8%), Linux 32 (9.8%), IRIX 23 (9.3%), 
Solaris 15 (7.5%), WindowsNT 12 (6.1%), SunOS 9 (0.6%), NetBSD 9 (0.9%), 
BSD/OS 7 (1.3%), AIX 3 (7.1%), OS/2 2 (0.2%), Minix 1 (0.1%), SCO 1 (0.8%), 
DigitalUNIX 1 (3.1%)

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 




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