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However, I think there is still value in writing the software that will allow cooperation amoung hundreds or thousands of people. That way, we could harness the space CPU of machines all over the globe and make the cracking of this kind of stuff routine.
I'd anticipate with proper advertising, easy-to-use software, and little programming knowledge require, we could easily harness 10,000+ machines and a few dozen parallel machines.
A generalised distributed compute server would be powerful, a participant would only have to compile the server and ensure it's running. It would compile and run cracking code only if signed by say four principal participants. The central coordinator service would want to send the following instructions (every communique would be signed & checked): 1) accept code & run 2) report progress 3) stop 4) some management of keys, where perhaps any 3 principal participant keys could revoke or add others for evolutionary purposes. Just an idea, probably old. -- <URL:http://www.comp.vuw.ac.nz/~matt> __________ .- __ / -- -\ __ . . . 0 / <___> ___ | =8' //\/ .^| _---_ / \ = / \ \/\ |o | = / o | | || | ... / =0=======0==| |----| |= Another drive by shooting on \_\_/ \_\_/ \_\_/ the information super highway.