Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 07:49:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com> Cc: Aled Morris <aledm@routers.co.uk>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bovine Message-ID: <XFMail.970905075436.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970904212452.581C-100000@acp.qiv.com>
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Bovine is an effort of amatuer users to crack the RSA challenge of 56bit RC5 encryption. Our goal is to prove to Congress and anyone else, that 56bit encryption is not sufficient for commerce/personal use. We need to be allowed to use 128bit+. DES 56bit encryption has already fallen. The effort uses the spare cycles on your system to crack the code. There are client software for nearly all OS's and they spend their time hacking away at the code. Full details and clients can be gotten from http://rc5.distributed.net I've been running the client on about 15 computers for 4 months. Patrick On 05-Sep-97 Jay D. Nelson wrote: >I didn't understand a word of this. Can someone explain? > >-- Jay > >On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Aled Morris wrote: > >> In case anyone's interested, I'm the one who's currently sending >> blocks to Bovine under the "freebsd@freebsd.org" team address. >> >> If no one objects, I'll register a password and put a website up with >> details of the hardware being used (4 x Pentium 100 type machines). >> >> I don't expect to hit the top 1000 with what I've got! I'm aiming to >> be in the top 5000 by tomorrow :-( I'm doing about 200 blocks per day at >> the moment, compared to the Apple evangelists who are doing 157,176 blocks >> per day! >> >> Aled >> -- >> tel +44 973 207987 O- >> aledm@routers.co.uk >> > >-- Jay ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> Date: 05-Sep-97 Time: 07:49:55 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
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