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[Files] New RC5/OGR Distributed Amiga clientsANN.lu
Posted on 20-Apr-2002 11:18 GMT by Thomas Tavoly6 comments
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New RC5/OGR clients are out, with built in ClassAct/Reaction GUI and some bugfixes/improvements. See http://distributed.amiga.org See http://distributed.amiga.org
New RC5/OGR Distributed Amiga clients : Comment 1 of 6ANN.lu
Posted by Thomas W on 21-Apr-2002 06:42 GMT
Very lovely they are too. I'm running one on each cpu now :) I love the ease of installation.
New RC5/OGR Distributed Amiga clients : Comment 2 of 6ANN.lu
Posted by Keith Blakemore-Noble on 21-Apr-2002 09:48 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Thomas W):
Yay!
Join the Amiga distributed net team (using non-Amigas of course as the majority seem to do ;-)) and help prove just how strong RC5-64 really is - after 4.5 years of concerted combined attempts by 323,232 computers from round the world, one single RC5-64 encrypted message as STILL not been cracked!
Yes, that should convince the man-on-the-street that RC5-64 is insecure, really it will...
Note - I am *not* saying I think 64-bit is secure (that's why my PGP key is currently 4096 bits and no doubt I'll have a larger key in due course). I'm just pointing out that the RC5-64 crack effort was supposedly to show how easy 64-bit is to crack, but the the man-in-the-street it has the exact opposite effect. IMHO.
Kudos to Thomas and crew for organising the amiga effort, though (seriously).
New RC5/OGR Distributed Amiga clients : Comment 3 of 6ANN.lu
Posted by aTmosh on 21-Apr-2002 19:07 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Keith Blakemore-Noble):
Yes yes, we've been through this discussino a million times. It was obvious
from the beginning this would take 2-5 years, but it shows that idle time on
some enthousiast machines can do it, so an agency or corporation determined
enough can do it a lot faster.
New RC5/OGR Distributed Amiga clients : Comment 4 of 6ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 21-Apr-2002 22:14 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Keith Blakemore-Noble):
Afair some year ago someone built a special keycrack machine that was faster than distributed net.
New RC5/OGR Distributed Amiga clients : Comment 5 of 6ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 21-Apr-2002 22:20 GMT
P.S. http://www.eff.org/descracker/ :-)
New RC5/OGR Distributed Amiga clients : Comment 6 of 6ANN.lu
Posted by aTmosh on 22-Apr-2002 09:35 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Anonymous):
> Afair some year ago someone built a special keycrack machine that was faster than distributed net.
Yes, but this was the much weaker DES encryption (still in common use for
passwords). BTW, Deep Crack on its own was about as fast as the rest of
D.net, and (much) slower by now.
But it's a good example of how someone can invest in a specialized machine
which does it much faster than generic CPUs. DES was eventually cracked in
under 24 hours in a brute force approach, without any sophistication such
as using weaknesses or dictionaries (which can bring it down to seconds
for something like a hashed password).
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