At 7:15 PM -0700 6/19/97, 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/
Reminds me of a certain Frenchman and some trees he wanted planted.... The paraphrased version would go as follows: Someone: "Hey, I plan to get the RC5 crack software installed and running on my machine tomorrow." Other: "You do know, don't you, that even several thousand machines will take several weeks, maybe months, don't you?" Someone: "In that case, I'll get started tonight." --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."