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Date:      Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:46:59 -0500 (EST)
From:      Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
To:        ulf@alameda.net, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RSAcrack] Effort seems to be slowing down...
Message-ID:  <199703022146.QAA10969@crh.cl.msu.edu>
References:  <5fcnnu$js9$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>

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In lists.freebsd.chat you write:

>>     I wonder if the new binaries/servers will take this into
>> consideration, but the effort is slowing down, due to the fact that
>> its getting harder and harder to connect to the central server :(
>>
>>     Looking at http://zero.genx.net/bill/summary.html, there
>> are 14060hosts participating, with an estimated "completion time" of
>> 20.12years...
>>
>>     This morning, it was something like 2.92years...
>>
>>       Average MK/sec since the beginning: 204.68
>>     Average MK/sec over the past 3 hours: 113.58
>>
>>     They should try to work out some sort of distribution system,
>> whereby instead of everyone connecting to the one central server,
>> we could point at some secondary servers...shit, just give linuxnet.org
>> (@ 4407hosts) and best.net (@ 1714hosts) their own servers would take
>> a helluva load off of genx.net...
>>
>>     Oh well, just some comments/observations...
>>
>>     For those that *aren't* following the stats, though, we are in
>> 10th place now...we're slowly creeping up...
>>

>The years on genx.net were long time wrong, and he said so too.

I think it is slowing down however, keys in the last 30 minutes: 0.

Either their key server crashed, or they are replacing it with the new one and
new binaries arent yet available.

-Crh
-- 

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich



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