17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 07:15 PM 6/19/97 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
It seems that the RC5 cracking effort had no idea about the loads their web server would be subjected to once thousands of DES crackers moved over to cracking RC5. Their NT based webserver (bad idea...) collapsed. While it recovers, you can still get the client software from ftp://ftp.distributed.net/rc5/
Sounds like a job for Broadcasting! Anybody who has a copy want to post it to Usenet? (It also sounds like a job for web caching proxies at ISPs.) # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list or news, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)