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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. Good for them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I read a lot of people thinking that people should be using their cycles for something "better" like Protein folding, etc, etc.

    But, as a person who often spends a lot of his time using CPU cycles for blasting critters in games, I say, why the hell not? I'm hardly saving the world 24 hours a day anyway, why does picking my distributed project have to save the world too?

    I *liked* running SETI back in '98. That god awful screen saver that slowed down your cycles was great for getting other people interested in it when they walked by.

    At least this company is handing out $$$ for a possible incentive. If only companies selling my address and demographic data could send me $$$ they're making off of me...

    Make money reading email...

  2. Could someonce crack this for me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    root:$1$Õ7$yJ8tcPXCtBv$uaO70KGÎâç3fNs1e

  3. Hmm... by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Other then yet another encryption crack or useless mathematics, what else is there around to waste my server's cycles on? Preferably something useful, like cancer research or something. Oh, and SETI isn't considered to be useful IMHO.

    --
    Hate me!
  4. Re:Why bother? by the+unbeliever · · Score: 0, Redundant
    A Golomb ruler is a set of integers (marks) a(1) 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.

    Found at research.ibm.com