From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 11 10:58:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA06765 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:58:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (hal-ns1-20.netcom.ca [207.181.94.84]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA06754 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id OAA07074; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:58:11 -0300 (ADT) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:58:11 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Mark Mayo cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DES Challenge In-Reply-To: <19970411102303.56819@vinyl.quickweb.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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