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RC5-64 Success

Posted by michael on 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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  1. I'M A FUCKING IDIOT AND MACS SUCK!!!!!!!!! by mortis_aeturnus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oooops!! I logged in on a Mac at my University and the stupid machine doesn't delete user data!!! Haha!! Macs SUCK!!! Now my Slashdot account has been taken over!!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!! If only Macs could be more like Novell on Windows 2000....... oh my god Macs suck so bad!!! Nice security!!!!

  2. Imagine by Quok · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A beowulf cluster of those laptops!

    (Sorry, I couldn't let that one go.)

  3. A true business success! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1) Get 100,000 people to crack RC5-64 for you.
    2) Profit!

    No ???? stage required!

  4. are you going to the meetup? by edrugtrader · · 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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    MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
    1. Re:are you going to the meetup? by edrugtrader · · 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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      MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
  5. Re:Don't use Slashnet because of their IRC Opers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ah yes, Squeezer. When you abuse other people's channels and start evading their bans, opers have no other choice but to temporarily AKILL you. Thanks to you trying to evade AKILLs, you've only made it that more permanent. SlashNET is very user-friendly, and your being banned is proof of that.