[H-GEN] HUMBUG RC5 Team

[Anthony Towns]

Hello world,

The distributed.net ( http://www.distributed.net/ ) rc5 challenge has
been mentioned here before (back in the days when it was just starting
up and working on the 56 bit version).

Well, now, as then, there's a HUMBUG team working on it; so rather than
crediting your blocks to some random Unix or (heaven-forbid!) non-Unix
related team out there, you can credit them to your favourite user group!

The team id is #3559, and you'll find it if you search for either HUMBUG
or Unix, in the little search box.


For those of you who haven't been following distributed.net's activities,
they're currently working on cracking encryption keys to win RSA's various
competitions. They've already done the 56 bit rc5 cypher, and the second
DES challenge (the first was won by Solnet), and are now working on the
much harder 64 bit rc5 cypher.

Tar-balls are available from the distributed.net pages; .deb's are available
from the Debian ftp site (if you're using hamm, just fire up dselect and
look for the "distributed-net" package).

Cheers,
aj, who thinks this team thing is all just an evil plot to get rid of his
    ~10000 keyblock headstart. Curse you, Byron!

-- 
Anthony Towns <aj at humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/>
I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred.

      ``It's not a vision, or a fear. It's just a thought.''
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