Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 18:26:24 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DES Challenge Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970411182310.235h-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <14845.860790203@time.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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 :) > > Actually, most of us actually gave up on that effort in disgust. :-) > I should probably go remove about 10 of the machines there which > I personally know are no longer running the crack. > > The key server was just hosed too much of the time to make it > worth continuing. Have you tried the bovine proxy stuff? My machine hasn't had to sit idle waiting for anything since I switched...we're currently ranked 2nd on the bovine stats, just behind best.net, with 3rd not even coming *close* to competing...and there are approx 6 proxy servers currently running... There is a link to bovine off of the vex.net pages... Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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