RC5-72 Clients Available on distributed.net

Yoda2 writes "From the distributed.net site... 'The RC5-72 project is now officially up and running, as of 03-Dec-2002! You will need to download a new client in order to participate. Our FAQ-O-matic has been updated with the beginnings of a new RC5-72 section.' Also, there is a $10,000 prize for the winner, but as with the other RC5 projects, the owner of the computer that finds the key does not get all of the money."

Comments

Great!

[DAldredge]

Now we can all use millions of watts to fingure out that it takes a long time to break codes!!!

This is stupid

[CvD]

There are so many other uses for CPU cycles than this. I've looked at the site, and none of the reasons they are doing this is really worth the massive amounts of electricity that go into this BS: an idle CPU uses a lot less than a busy one.

- To do something with all this computing power

There are other interesting more useful things to do with computing power.

- To prove that small-bitsize encryption is insufficient

I think they got the message the first 2 times.

- To explore the feasibility of cooperative networked multiprocessing

You mean they're still not convinced after all those years?

- Because it's fun

Yeah, okay... I guess everyone has their little projects. :-) I'll give them that.

- Because you can win money!

Um... yeah... you can win money with the lottery too. This might give you a slightly higher chance, but you'll have to wait many years to find out if you've won or not.

- To get to know more people

You don't need to waste CPU cycles and electricity in this manner to meet people. Running an RC5 client is not necessary to use IRC. :-)

Cheers,

Costyn.

Re:NO, YOU'RE USING "WANKING AT HOME" YOU GREAT PO

[BasharTeg]

Subject line troll? Have we truly sunk that low?

Someone needs to write a trolling-on-slashdot is dead post.

BT