Lucky Green wrote: | I am sure the university will make an exception to the rule once a $1M | check for the regents arrives. The Internet idealists are your base for any | distributed crack. But the cracks that come next are too complex to be | performed by just your base. As in an election, you have to reach beyond | your base to win. The students can show their solidarity. It will require | tempting cash offers before large scale distributed cracks can suck cycles | from the millions of computers in other environments. Large numbers of small wins may be more likely to draw in cycles than single large prizes. This is because as a small player I'll go after the $100 prize that I can win daily over the $1M prize that I can win yearly. The odds against the $1M prize are too high. There were two companies at Crypto talking about this sort of business model, software to ship by year end. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume