[H-GEN] HUMBUG RC5 Team

Ross Camm rossco-humbug at powerup.com.au
Wed Apr 22 04:04:48 EDT 1998


So if you add me to the list...how many team members do we have ???

Ross

At 08:21 PM 4/21/98 +1000, you wrote:
>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.''
>
>Attachment Converted: "E:\Download\mail\[H-GEN] HUMBUG RC5 Team"
>


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