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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. Yea!!! by MarvinMouse · · Score: 1, Redundant

    So somehow has proven that given enough time, money and effort, RSA 64-bit encryption can be eventually broken using the amazing method of...

    BRUTE FORCE.

    Who woulda thought.

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  2. SETI by southpolesammy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Since that the RC5-64 algorithm has finally been brute forced, perhaps we can put those now idle computers to work looking for ET? Seems a more worthwhile effort to me...

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    Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
  3. Just got OpenSSH Protocol 2 RSA working... by snatchitup · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'm using putty (development version) to connect from a Win box to a linux box.

    I'm glad I'm using 1024bit encryption. They've worked so hard to do 64 bit. But each additional bit is a redoubling in the amount of computing power it's going to take to decrypt my packets. Good luck!

    I've only got port 22 port fowarded from my router.

    You just aint getting in!