RC5-64 Success

Posted by michael on Thursday September 26, 2002 @03:38AM from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

Peter Trei writes "After over four years of effort, hundreds of thousands of participants, and millions of cpu-hours of work, Distributed.net has brute forced the key to RSA Security's 64 bit encryption challenge, winning a US$10,000 prize. Still outstanding Challenges carry prizes as high as $200,000. RSA's PR release is here. d.net's site has not yet been updated." Update: 09/26 16:59 GMT by CN : The good folks over at SlashNET are having a forum with the distributed.net crew on Saturday at 21:00 UTC. It'll be a great time to meet some of the people who made this possible.

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Imagine by Quok · 2002-09-26 04:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

A beowulf cluster of those laptops!

(Sorry, I couldn't let that one go.)
are you going to the meetup? by edrugtrader · 2002-09-26 05:23 · Score: 1, Offtopic

the south bay slashdot meetup is tonight at st. johns bar in sunnyvale... the guy who made distributed.net was there for the first one, if you are reading, are you coming tonight?? $3 pitchers of beer for celebration... i better bring my credit card.

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1. Re:are you going to the meetup? by edrugtrader · 2002-09-26 06:46 · Score: 1, Offtopic
  
  the guy didn't take credit, and it wasn't jeff (i don't think), he was just a part of the website 'team'
  
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