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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."
That it will take 3 years, 2 months, 12 days, 4 hours, 17 minutes and 10 seconds to crack it.
11 seconds.
if they randomly cracked it in a week?
$1$cFtzhvlv$waP1EXtATPrxZYz1W/4kv1
Ideally before the end of the semester, thanks.
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
Protean folding? Is that like bacteria doing laundry?
If it's a distributed solution, don't you also have to consider the sheer numbers of processors participating? There are more folks in participating in the project now than four years ago, and many of these folks have more computers.
Five years from now, it may be that your house is participating, your cars are, as well perhaps as your shirts and underwear.
In sixeen years, shortly before skynet takes over, the smart dust in your living room may decide to participate as well. (Most likely the dust will not participate, but will instead form themselves into a gollum and try to kill you, but maybe...)
These cycles would be a lot better spent on something constructive like the protean folding project.
We can use some of distributed.net's power to spell check this guy's post!
if the correct key is found by a P2 300 MHz laptop, floating around the pacific on a small raft, before it's batteries are empty, Taco Bell will give free tacos to all.
$10,000