DES III starts Today (Upgrade Those Clients!)

David Hallowell writes " The DES III Contest is starting today at 5pm (GMT). Members of the distributed.net RC5 teams should make sure they download the latest client as they contain optimised code and a faster switchover to the DES contest. The DES contest will last for a maximum of 56 hours and the $10,000 prize will only be available if it is cracked within 24 hours. After that the prizes are on a sliding scale until it reaches 56 hours after which there's no prize."