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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. It's even on CNN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh, lookie here!

  2. Oh great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Now i will be able to put my new amd athlon box to use! Playing tuxracer at 100 fps dosent cut it!

  3. A significant step forward! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This project will prove once and for all that a mob of acne-scarred dweebs can stop masturbating to tentacle hentai long enough to install a stupid little daemon that somebody else wrote on their beige boxes! It will further prove that even a beige box owned by a Slashdot reader can, in exotic conditions, be harnessed to do useful work!

    HALLELUJIA!

  4. I'll take on any team by Lt+Razak · · Score: 0, Troll
    My one computer will take on any team and stomp them into oblivion!

  5. Re:RC5-72 stats not currently available by sirinek · · Score: 2, Troll

    I spent 3 months using 160 Sun workstations to crack keys on RC5-64 only to quit when the stats became "temporarily unavailable" (which IIRC, was at least a couple months!!!!) and my enjoyment of seeing how I fared against the rest of the participants disappeared.

    That was in early 1999, and I never returned.

    I dont give my cycles away anymore, but if I were, itd be to something that would help advance science and have nothing to do with aliens or cryptography.

    siri

  6. Re:NO, YOU'RE USING "WANKING AT HOME" YOU GREAT PO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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

    When written, it should be posted to the trolling-on-slashdot is dead forum.

  7. Re:Hmm... by _ph1ux_ · · Score: 1, Troll

    so your saying that google has usurped free cycles from me by making my machine a part of their distributed team when I installed the google bar?!

    Was this in the EULA - this should be illegal.

    I fired a consultant who setup some FTP servers for our company and had them working on the RC-5 project without our knowledge. (and if I said who this guy was - or the company he worked for - everyone on slashdot would know who I'm talking about)

    These things are not good from a professional standpoint.