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Article #47127Be Quick! - RSA's DEC Challenge III (Linux Client available)
From: C4IS
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 00:00
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Anybody want to donate spare CPU cycles to help crack DES (again)? Do it in under 56 hours and you could win a prise (quicker and your prise could be bigger)! <distributed.net> has a team of people work- ing on the problem; c.f. their How To Help page: http://www.distributed.net/howto.html <distributed.net> has a range of Linux clients (as well as lot of others for Win32, et al.); try: http://www.distributed.net/cgi/select.cgi?platform=linux Contest start 18 Jan 1999 9 am PST c.f. RSA Lab's site (contest sponsors) http://www.rsa.com/ While you're there (i.e. AFTER you start work on the problem, e.g. with your distributed.net client), satisfy any general curiosity you might have about cryptog- raphy with RSA's NEWLY DOWNLOAD ABLE, pdf or postscript, "Cryptography FAQ": http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/faq/ It's not to late to participate... yet... PS EFF (which apparently won a previous contest) does not seem to have as easy to find project for this event... correct me if I'm wrong... ;)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,1fed11936b8eb704,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public X-Google-Thread: 114671,1fed11936b8eb704,start X-Google-Attributes: gid114671,public X-Google-Thread: 103407,1fed11936b8eb704,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103407,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,1fed11936b8eb704,start X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: "C4IS" <C4IS@neWave.net.au> Subject: Be Quick! - RSA's DEC Challenge III (Linux Client available) Date: 1999/01/18 Message-ID: <77u8r1$o4$1@news.eisa.net.au> X-Deja-AN: 433865006 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: news@news.eisa.net.au X-Trace: news.eisa.net.au 916629153 772 202.139.12.10 (18 Jan 1999 03:12:33 GMT) Organization: C4IS NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jan 1999 03:12:33 GMT Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,aus.electronics,aus.politics,aus.radio.amateur.misc