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05-07-2001, 10:16 PM
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interested
ok so what exactly is this competition?
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05-08-2001, 02:46 AM
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SQL nutcase
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It's a contest started by the RSA to crack a RC5 64bit encrypted message. The winner gets 2000$. Distributed.net distributes parts of the keyspace that has to be checked to you. Read about it on http://www.distributed.net or click on the link in my sig.
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05-19-2001, 11:38 AM
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ok but exactly how do they do this? will it slow down my internet connection?
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05-19-2001, 12:29 PM
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No, the only time the client will access the internet, is to send completed packets and download new work units, just like SETI@home. The cpu will be doing all the work, but it won't be slowing your system down any.
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