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RC5-72 Clients Available on distributed.net

Posted by michael on from the get-cracking dept.

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."

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  1. Stats Page... by httpamphibio.us · · Score: 5, Informative

    the current stats page doesn't seem to be linked from the main page anywhere... anyway, here's the link.

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  2. Is this even worth it? by bnenning · · Score: 5, Informative

    RC5-64 took 4 years, and this has a keyspace that's 256 times larger. Even if we assume that computers are 4 times faster now than the average speed at which RC5-64 keys were processed, we're still looking at 256 years to completion. It doesn't seem like it makes any sense to start until computers are at least 20 times faster.

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  3. RC5-72 stats not currently available by Decibel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Althogh that link does work, RC5-72 stats are not yet available, we're still working some bugs out.

  4. Re:This is a waste of time by MasterD · · Score: 5, Informative
    These cycles would be a lot better spent on something constructive like the protean folding project.

    No, no, use your cycles to crack something real like the TiVo password!

  5. Re:Why bother? by the+unbeliever · · Score: 5, Informative
    Grr, damn HTML

    A Golomb ruler is a set of integers (marks) a(1) < ... < a(n) such that all the differences a(i)-a(j) (i > j) are distinct. Clearly we may assume a(1)=0. Then a(n) is the length of the Golomb ruler. For a given number of marks, n, we are interested in finding the shortest Golomb rulers. Such rulers are called optimal.