From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 2 13:47:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA04889 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 13:47:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA04868 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 13:47:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.4) id QAA10969; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:46:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:46:59 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199703022146.QAA10969@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: ulf@alameda.net, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RSAcrack] Effort seems to be slowing down... Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.chat References: <5fcnnu$js9$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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