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In article <c1.0.2G5NrD$Q0u@freedom2.express.net>,
os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) wrote:
>Ron, I almost did it (I already downloaded the files) but here is what
>concerns me.

WIth the idiotic US Government laws, you probably have a right to be.

>The calculations the program makes is cryptographic information which is
>on the ammunitions list.  It cannot be exported, especially in machine
>readable form such as email.  By sending out keys explored, you are
>practically exporting parts for ammunition, and you could be in for
>government action.

Hmmm.  Good question.  What the program does is download a block of keys
(actually, it just gets the "start" key and explores the next 2^29 keys).
It then replys back with your OS type, e-mail address, the start key and
either a yes or a no if you found the key.  _I_ don't think this would be
prosecutable or not.  You could think of someone encoding some paragraph
with a Ceasar cipher (rotate all the letters by a certain count) and then
asking 26 people if they could check one of the rotations and reply back
either in the afirmative or the negative.

>There is no way (unless one receives a letter from the government
>blessing it) you can be sure that you are not violating anything if you
>are located in the US.

Agreed.  Noone really knows how much the US would be able to prosecute.
However, there are several companies (2.19% of total work) and a few US
government sites participating in the challenge (0.11% of the total work so
far).  I think the government would have bigger fish to fry than us little
guys!

>In article <3WFezUaapGDE089yn@ibm.net>,
>Ronald Van Iwaarden <rrt0136@ibm.net> wrote:
>>For those who are interested, OS/2 has reached the number 10 slot on the DES
>>Challenge attack at http://www.des.sollentuna.se/.  However, Solaris x86 is
>>quickly catching up on OS/2 and will surpass it in about a week if more
>>machines don't join in to help out OS/2's numbers.
>>
>>If you have a computer that is hooked up to the internet at least every 12
>>hours (or even just overnight), you can join in the challenge with the OS/2
>>client at http://www.des.solentuna.se/clients/des_os2.zip.  This program
>>will run in the background and not take any CPU time from your active
>>programs.  It only uses about 200k or RAM so you won't notice any
>>performance hit either in CPU or RAM.
>>
>>Simply download the archive, unzip it and execute it with the command:
>>
>>des_os2 -e your@email.address -s keymaster4.des.sollentuna.se
>>
>>or
>>
>>des_os2 -e your@email.address -s keymaster4.des.sollentuna.se -c 10
>>
>>to download 10 blocks of work at a time.  Help make sure OS/2 stays in the
>>top 10 and help out with the challenge at the same time!